Statewide Emergency Wireless Network Killed

There was a plan between the State of New York and a subsidiary of Tyco Electronics to build a wireless network which could be used exclusively by emergency crews (fire, police, ambulence, etc) in the event of an emergency. Choosing a Tyco company seems bad enough to start with, but it now appears that this deal has been killed due to numerous delinquencies on the part of the contractor.

But the article notes also that this move was also in response to the deficit the Governor has seen fit to deal with right now. I still think the timing of our sudden interest in budget cuts and spending reduction is a bit odd, but this seems like the kind of thing we might want to farm out to someone else, not kill outright.