A moral obligation to provide more spectrum for public protection?

European public safety services are pressing for a share of the digital dividend pie. Top on their wish list is harmonised spectrum in the UHF range for data and broadband communications.

Partly funded by the European Commission, Public Safety Communication Europe Forum (PSC Europe) offers the public safety and security services a venue in which to discuss communications needs, said Motorola Belgium Director Jeppe Jepsen, who chairs the organisation's Spectrum Harmonisation Initiative. Public safety spectrum users still lack a strong voice in Europe despite the 1996 establishment of the pan-European Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) network that linked all emergency services on the same frequency, he said.

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