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Closing the communication gap
Washington Times ^ | Friday, July 11, 2003 | By Matthew J. Flanigan

Posted on 07/10/2003 11:12:52 PM PDT by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:05:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

While public tensions may have eased since the Iraqi war, recent hearings by the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet expose a critical communications gap. All too frequently, our local police and fire departments' radio systems can't communicate with those of neighboring communities in an emergency. In a national emergency, the result could be chaos.


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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homelandsecurity; project25
Friday, July 11, 2003

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