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In a letter to the chairs and ranking members of the Subcommittee and parent House Energy & Commerce Committee, NAB President Gordon Smith said that broadcasting “is sometimes the only available communications medium in an emergency when wireless and other networks fail.”
Smith drew distinctions between the wireless broadband networks that were the main focus of the hearing, and wireless broadcast networks that are “redundant, resilient” and have “no bottlenecks,” adding: “An emergency alert can reach millions of people simultaneously without…
