Assn. of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) affiliate ...
Assn. of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) affiliate urged public safety licensees last week to respond to FCC Wireless Bureau audit of private land mobile radio station operators. APCO affiliate Automated Frequency Coordination Inc. said Wireless Bureau had sent letters…
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to Part 90 licensees with authorized facilities below 512 MHz, seeking information about operational status of stations for which they were licensed. Object is to update FCC’s database of those licensees and to result in return of spectrum in cases of cancellation or notification that licenses weren’t needed any longer. APCO said FCC had indicated it had heard from only 43% of public safety agencies. “That means of the 57,000 letters sent out in the second mailing for public safety licensees alone, no responses have been received for 33,176 of the letters,” APCO said. “While the FCC has made no definite commitment to any final action for nonresponding licensees, they clearly are warning that, by not responding, they risk automatic cancellation of their license authorizations.”