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The National Public Safety Telecom Council’s Broadband Working Group took...

The National Public Safety Telecom Council’s Broadband Working Group took a stab at clarifying definitions of “mission critical voice” for broadband emergency alerts. “The effort to establish an accepted definition for mission critical voice was undertaken by NPSTC because as…

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public safety transitions to the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Wireless Network, voice communications may transition from today’s Land Mobile Radio (LMR) channelized narrowband voice systems to voice over the broadband network. If this transition is to be accomplished, it is imperative that those companies who will be developing the technology to provide voice over broadband fully understand all of the requirements that make up public safety mission critical voice,” the working group said in a news release Friday with its report (http://xrl.us/bmcbj7). The group said its effort “is not designed to provide a road map for those who desire to build mission critical voice into wireless broadband technologies, but has been written to provide a basis for a common understanding of the meaning of and the multiple requirements of mission critical voice."