---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 1422"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "1422"
heading: "Public safety broadband network"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/1422"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Public Safety Communications and Electromagnetic Spectrum Auctions"
  - "Subchapter II — Governance of Public Safety Spectrum"
---

# §1422. Public safety broadband network

- (a) **Establishment—** The [First Responder Network Authority](/usc/47/1401.md?p=15) shall ensure the establishment of a nationwide, interoperable public safety broadband network.
- (b) **Network components—** The [nationwide public safety broadband network](/usc/47/1401.md?p=21) shall be based on a single, national network architecture that evolves with technological advancements and initially consists of—
  - (1) a [core network](/usc/47/1401.md?p=12) that—
    - (A) consists of national and regional data centers, and other elements and functions that may be distributed geographically, all of which shall be based on [commercial standards](/usc/47/1401.md?p=10); and
    - (B) provides the connectivity between—
      - (i) the [radio access network](/usc/47/1401.md?p=29); and
      - (ii) the public Internet or the public switched network, or both; and
  - (2) a [radio access network](/usc/47/1401.md?p=29) that—
    - (A) consists of all cell site equipment, antennas, and backhaul equipment, based on [commercial standards](/usc/47/1401.md?p=10), that are required to enable wireless communications with devices using the public safety broadband spectrum; and
    - (B) shall be developed, constructed, managed, maintained, and operated taking into account the plans developed in the [State](/usc/47/1401.md?p=31), local, and tribal planning and implementation grant program under [section 1442(a) of this title](/usc/47/1442.md?p=a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 112–96, title VI, § 6202, Feb. 22, 2012, 126 Stat. 206.)