Silicon Valley wrestles self over public safety spectrum US public-safety officials are involved in a tug-of-war with commercial interests about who gets control over the coveted 10MHz "D-Block" — and here in The Reg's San Francisco territory, said public-safety folks are harming their own cause through bickering and infighting. And no, we're not talking about that D-Block, we're …
...if you can imagine a sardonic Gomer Pyle.
When they were getting ready to force digital broadcast TV on us, all the talk was about how it was necessary so as to free up spectrum for emergency services.
I knew better than to believe a word of it.
Even before the idea of auctioning off chunks of the people's airwaves gained hold, business believed they were entitled to spectrum in perpetuity just because they could make money with it, and heaven forbid we get in the way of that just because we want it used "in the public interest", to use that quaint old phrase that used to guide the FCC.
No wonder first responders feel they have to grab what they can while they can any way that they can.
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