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If you've ever been to a football game, and you've tried to

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use your cell phone, you get a busy signal a lot of times.

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Well, if someone's trying to save your life, you don't want a busy signal.

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We need data. We need videos. We need photographs. We need building plans.

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Today's commercial services allow us to be able to have access to that kind of data.

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The problem is, that isn't reliable when we need it.

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Those networks are often overloaded during major events.

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Industry by its nature, is profit driven. Public Safety is not profit driven.

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Public Safety is driven by the needs of the community.

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So it's important that there be a process

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by which these two basically opposite goals

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can come together and form a decision that's good for the country.

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NPSTC is an organization of fifteen public safety organizations,

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state and local government representatives,

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as well as federal representatives.

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Firstnet- which is short for 'First Responder Network Authority',

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is the first high speed, public safety, broadband network.

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It promises to help - Police, Fire, and EMS professionals

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be able to do their jobs better.

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Over the years, NPSTC has worked at trying to anticipate

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the design needs for the network.

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So early on, we created the first major document

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Called the "NPSTC Public Safety Statement of Requirements"

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Resilience is a key factor

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to make sure that the network that is going to be built is going to

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be able to withstand natural and man-made disasters.

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The average firefighter, paramedic, or cop

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ought to have the same level of technology in their hand

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that the average 13-year old has.