[IP] Re: $Multi-billion Broadband stimulus decisions imminent

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "(Mr) Lyn R Kennedy" <lrkn@sbcglobal.net>
Date: January 13, 2009 9:23:09 AM EST
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Re: [IP] $Multi-billion Broadband stimulus decisions imminent

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 07:20:50PM -0500, David Farber wrote:
> "The team is mostly policy people and extraordinarily capable but
> mostly non-technical."  WHY?? The best way of solving this is to have
> highly technical people included who can say, as I said often at the
> FCC, as Chief Technologist,   to pleadings by companies to the
> Chairman,  "you are not telling it correctly? "

Unfortunately, this is true also in the emergency communications area.
Police, fire, EMS, and OEP people are being saddled with radio systems
designed by salesmen and approved by politicians, neither with real
expertise in critical systems.

The E-911 systems are also seriously deficient for similar reasons.


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