Newscan: Cell-phone carriers are fighting a plan to make it easier to find 911 callers

Entities have through July 12 to complete spectrum-lease negotiations; meanwhile, the deadline to spend grant money also is expected to be pushed back one year to September 2015.

Jeremy Denton, 36, who served two leading wireless industry trade associations in senior-level positions, died after a two-year bout with brain cancer.

Including the band in every wireless device--phones, tablet computers, electric meters and more--should dramatically reduce the cost of chipsets, potentially create new funding mechanisms, and provide public officials with a vital alerting resource in emergencies that they don't have today.

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