Editing Project 25 (section)

====Beyond Phase 2====<!--[[Project MESA]] redirects here-->
From 2000 to 2009, the [[European Telecommunications Standards Institute]] (ETSI) and TIA were working collaboratively on the Public Safety Partnership Project or '''Project MESA''' (Mobility for Emergency and Safety Applications),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.projectmesa.org/ |title=Mobile Broadband for Public Safety - Home Page |publisher=Project MESA |access-date=2014-06-06|url-status=usurped|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020103132/http://www.projectmesa.org/|archive-date=2008-10-20}}</ref> which sought to define a unified set of requirements for a next-generation aeronautical and terrestrial digital wideband/broadband radio standard that could be used to transmit and receive voice, video, and high-speed data in wide-area, multiple-agency networks deployed by public safety agencies.<ref name=projectmesa_tia>[https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-r/oth/0A/0E/R0A0E0000540001PDFE.pdf Advanced Mobile Broadband For Public Protection & Disaster Relief Professionals]. David Thompson. Telecommunications Industry Association</ref><ref name=projectmesa_itu-t>[https://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/workshop/ets/s5p1.pdf Project MESA: Broadband Telecommunications for PPDR]. David Thompson. Telecommunications Industry Association</ref>

The final functional and technical requirements have been released by ETSI<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.projectmesa.org/ftp/Specifications/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613000949/http://www.projectmesa.org/ftp/Specifications/|url-status=dead|title=www.projectmesa.org - /ftp/Specifications/|archivedate=June 13, 2010}}</ref> and were expected to shape the next phases of American Project 25 and European DMR, [[dPMR]], and TETRA, but no interest from the industry followed, since the requirements could not be met by available commercial off-the-shelf technology, and the project was closed in 2010.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}

During the [[United States 2008 wireless spectrum auction]], the FCC allocated 20&nbsp;MHz of the 700&nbsp;MHz [[UHF]] radio band spectrum [[Digital television transition in the United States|freed in the digital TV transition]] to public safety networks.  The FCC expects providers to employ [[Long Term Evolution|LTE]] for high-speed data and video applications.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fcc.gov/700-mhz-public-safety-narrowband-spectrum|title=700 MHz Public Safety Spectrum|date=March 17, 2011|website=Federal Communications Commission}}</ref>