S 1040 · 112th Congress · Science, Technology, Communications

Broadband for First Responders Act of 2011

Introduced 2011-05-19· Sponsored by Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [ID-CT]· Senate

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Enacted
Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.(2011-05-19)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Broadband for First Responders Act of 2011 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to increase the electromagnetic spectrum allocation for public safety services by 10 megahertz and reduce such allocation for commercial use by the same amount. Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to: (1) allocate the paired electromagnetic spectrum bands of 758-763 megahertz and 788-793 megahertz (referred to as D Block) for public safety broadband communications and license such paired bands to public safety; (2) establish rules to permit a public safety broadband licensee to authorize public safety service providers to construct and operate a wireless public safety broadband network in the public safety broadband spectrum; (3) require the wireless public safety broadband network to be fully interoperable, provide for user roaming and priority access to public safety entities, be disaster survivable, have appropriate cyber security, and enable authorized users to develop local networks; (4) authorize the shared use, sublicensing, or leasing of the public safety broadband spectrum and network infrastructure by entities that are not defined as public safety services; (5) allow use of …

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1 Republican