FCC Details Broadband Plan For Public Safety

The Federal Communications Commission is promoting how its National Broadband Plan could enhance public-safety activities with a new Web page on the agency's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau site.

The agency launched the page this week, as the FCC convened a panel to create a nationwide interoperable public safety wireless broadband network, a plan that many believe will take years to come to fruition. A national broadband service is particularly important to public safety, as it can "provide enhanced situational awareness from first responders in emergency situations," according to the FCC.