Public safety pool licensees operating in 764- 776/794-806 MHz ba...

makers, came via a waiver the FCC granted Motorola. The firm wanted relief from certain private land mobile radio service operating requirements. In granting the request, the Commission waived Secs. 90.425 and 90.647 of Commission rules. Those rules require public safety pool licensees to send their call signs at least every 30 min. “by voice in the English language or by international Morse code” on an analog signal. Requiring analog station identification is not in the public interest, because it can boost 700 MHz gear’s complexity and cost and disrupt digital operations, Motorola said. The FCC agreed, saying enforcement “does not serve the purpose of the rules and would be inequitable and unduly burdensome.” The relief applies to all digital gear makers and public safety licensees in the 700 MHz band that meet its conditions: (1) “The licensee must be licensed on an exclusive basis and normally employ digital signals for the transmission for the transmission of data, text, control codes or digitized voice.” (2) “The licensee must provide the Commission, upon its request, information sufficient to decode the digital transmission and ascertain the call sign transmitted.” The FCC said the move is subject to the outcome of a Commission decision-making in a separate public safety proceeding and will be terminated on the date the rules promulgated in that proceeding take effect.