Emergency responder network unlikely by 10th anniversary of 9/11

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Raw Story
By Kase Wickman

After the national tragedy of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S., lawmakers vowed that through broadband reform, a first-responders priority network would be established.

Reform being, of course, no small task, instant gratification was neither expected nor required. September 11, 2011, the 10-year anniversary of the attacks, was set as an informal deadline for the network to be in place and operational.

The decade anniversary will likely come and go without an emergency first responders network, however.

At a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing in late July, lawmakers and experts both expressed their disappointment at the lack of progress in the first responder's network.

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