Outgoing FCC chairman Julius Genachowski is calling for an emergency, private network in times of emergency for the city of Boston. In an op-ed penned for the MIT Technology Review with Harvard internet law professor Jonathan Zittrain, Genachowski makes the case for Boston to be the “first city where these networks are operational” in the wake of the bombings at the Boston Marathon in April.

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