Implementing a Nationwide, Broadband, Interoperable Public Safety Network in the 700 MHz Band

In this document, the Commission considered a request for declaratory ruling filed by the City of Charlotte, North Carolina, seeking guidance on the scope of permissible operations under section 337 of the Communications Act as undertaken by state, local and other governmental entities in the public safety broadband spectrum of the 700 MHz band. The Commission dismissed the request, but clarified that a reasonably broad interpretation of the definition of "public safety services" under section 337 of the Act would allow some of the uses proposed by Charlotte and other commenters.