San Francisco Approves Dedicated LTE Network for First Responders

First responders in the San Francisco Bay Area may use a dedicated LTE network beginning next year, after a regional authority approved a 10-year deal for Motorola Solutions, funded primarily with a federal stimulus grant. The dedicated 700 MHz public service LTE network will enable first responders to use broadband applications on a private LTE designed to meet public-safety requirements. Current plans call for BayWEB to have between 144 and 150 sites. The BayRICS Vision is the ability for any public safety radio in the region to communicate with any other public safety radio regardless of location.