Sprint Nextel Pitches $2 Billion Plan to Provide Public Safety Communications
RCR Wireless, January 16, 2009
By Jeffrey Silva
Sprint Nextel has pitched to the Obama transition team a $2 billion plan to provide first responders with emergency interoperable wireless communications anywhere in the country within four hours, a model based on the use of fleets of trucks equipped with cellular gear and satellite backhaul.
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