New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and North Dakota as well as the District of Columbia have filed petitions. The local governments that have filed petitions include Boston, Mass.; New York City; the city and county of San Francisco, Oakland, Calif., and San Jose, Calif.; the city of Cedar Rapids and several counties in Iowa; and the city of San Antonio along with Bexar and Comal counties in Texas.
According to the FCC, these state and local governments stated in their filings that they have sufficient funding to deploy their interoperable public safety communications networks before the resolution of the commission's 700 MHz D block proceeding and that the networks will be interoperable with the resultant network from the commission's rule making. Some of the petitioners are asking to granted sublicenses that would give them the same rights as a licensee.
According to the FCC, the PSST supports these state and local efforts on the condition that sufficient safeguards are adopted to ensure their networks are interoperable with the national public safety communications network once such a network is built.
The FCC is accepting public comment on these petitions until October 16.
