NY comptroller: ditch $2 billion wireless network

New York should ditch a $2 billion plan for a statewide wireless network for emergency workers unless a Tyco Electronics Ltd unit can fix the already-delayed system's problems, State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said on Thursday. The plan was created to improve communications between emergency first responders such as police and firefighters after the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001. But New York's biggest-ever technology contract, awarded to Tyco Electronics unit M/A-COM in 2005, is a year and a half behind schedule and has suffered from technology problems found in a system audit.