White House wants to allocate D Block to public safety

TR Daily reported: "During a meeting with public safety leaders yesterday, Vice President Biden and other top administration officials announced their plan to support D-block reallocation," the article said. "The vice president said the administration would recommend that between $10 billion and $13 billion be appropriated to construct a nationwide public safety network, but he also mentioned that $10.5 billion would be reserved for the network from incentive auctions, according to public safety and industry sources. Administration officials said details of the plan would be announced in the fiscal year 2012 budget request to be released in February." That meshes with a bill introduced by Senate Commerce Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) but clashes with what the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) originally recommended for this block of spectrum.