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Beep. Garbled conversation. Beep. Louder garbled conversation. Oh how I hate hearing the beep beep sound emitted from iDen phone subscribers. I guess the upside is that the DoD and various other emergency response teams will have a better means to communicate with one another in emergency situations.

The United States of America has come to a fundamental conclusion about its national communications infrastructure post-9/11 in regards to homeland security; it’s broken. The Department of Defense, working with the FCC, DHS, the President, and Congress has brokered a framework agreement to purchase Sprint Nextel’s iDEN network as the first phase of a national overhaul of its security framework in regards to communication.

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Beep. Hey this is Joey, can you pick up a box of glazed donuts? Beep.