The FCC Wireless Bureau wants comment on a petition for stay by t...
The FCC Wireless Bureau wants comment on a petition for stay by the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council. The council asked the commission to put off interim deadlines to switch private land mobile radio services in the 150-174 MHz…
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and 421-512 MHz bands to narrowband technology. The council didn’t object to the final Jan. 1, 2013, deadline for the migration. But it asked for a stay of three interim deadlines in 2011 banning new applications concerning 25 kHz wideband spectrum and new equipment for the bands involved and requiring new applications for equipment authorization to specify a 6.25 kHz capability or equivalent efficiency. The council said enforcement of the first two deadlines would “hamper public safety interoperability during the final two years of the transition,” so they should coincide with the final 2013 deadline. It said the third requirement would “unnecessarily raise equipment costs” and should be delayed to 2015. The FCC asked whether the stay is needed, and if so whether it should apply only to public safety. The commission also asked whether it could reach the same goal “more appropriately” by granting waivers to licensees that show specific need. Comments are due Nov. 23, replies Dec. 3.