Chairman Rockefeller Calls on Motorola to Cease Campaign to Undermine FirstNet's Critical Mission

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller IV(D-WV) is deeply concerned by reports that Motorola Solutions is engaging in efforts to undermine FirstNet, the nationwide, interoperable wireless public safety broadband communications system.

Chairman Rockefeller authored the legislation creating FirstNet, which was signed into law last year, fulfilling one of the final recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. In a letter to Motorola Solutions CEO Gregory Brown, Chairman Rockefeller points to recent news reports that have suggested Motorola and its paid consultants have engaged in behind-the-scenes activities to undermine FirstNet. Chairman Rockefeller also calls on Motorola Solutions to work constructively with FirstNet to bring more competition to public safety communications. "Your company's actions to oppose this important effort to strengthen our Nation's public safety communications systems directly contradicts the intent of Congress, and it potentially endangers the success of a network that will benefit millions of law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and other first responders," Chairman Rockefeller wrote.