'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Since 1996, the men and women who risk their lives to save Americans in major crises and a myriad of lesser known daily emergencies have pleaded for a wireless public safety network by which they could communicate in the field during emergencies. The Federal Communications Commission — where I was chairman during the Reagan administration — now has the chance to cause industry to a build national wireless broadband network from coast to coast and from Canada to the Gulf.