The American Assn. of Paging Carriers, Allied National Paging Ass...

The petition suggests the Feb. order may have inadvertently made this requirement, in line with a schedule adopted for private land mobile radio service licensees. The groups asked that Part 90 paging-only frequencies should be “exempted entirely” from any requirement to move to 6.25 kHz operations. To the extent the FCC mandated conversion of these frequencies to such narrowband operations, the groups said paging carriers “would be forced to replace their existing systems and equipment operating on those frequencies at significant and unnecessary cost, and with substantial disruption of services provided to customers.” Paging carriers also have argued against a new FCC requirement in which Part 90 paging-only frequencies would be required to migrate to 12.5 kHz operation on an interim basis. Recently, Motorola and several private wireless and public safety groups also asked the FCC to reconsider its decision setting dates to move to narrowband equipment below 512 MHz. The petition by the paging carriers noted the FCC’s earlier refarming proceeding to alleviate frequency congestion and foster more efficient private wireless spectrum use below 800 MHz had not applied narrowbanding to Part 90 paging-only frequencies.