AT&T, Verizon feud over plan to boost emergency responder service, WSJ says

AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) are feuding over a plan to boost service for police, firefighters, and other state and local agencies, Drew FitzGerald of The Wall Street Journal reports. AT&T and its allies are asking regulators to provide more wireless frequencies to FirstNet, which holds an exclusive 25-year contract to run th network for the federal FirstNet Authority. Rival companies say the proposal would allow AT&T’s commercial business to piggyback on those airwaves for free. Verizon, which competes with FirstNet for public-safety contracts, called the proposal a giveaway of spectrum valued at $14B that would give its competitor a “substantial windfall.”