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</html><description>North Carolina&#x2019;s Voice Interoperability Plan for Emergency Responders (VIPER) and FirstNet technologies share the common purpose of improving interoperability for public safety first responders, but the Program Evaluation Division found the two systems complement rather than duplicate functionality. Each system possesses important capabilities for first responders that the other system does not offer. In addition, [&hellip;]</description><thumbnail_url>https://sites.ncleg.gov/ped/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2022/07/viper_photo5-1024x768.jpg</thumbnail_url></oembed>
