The FCC Wireless Bureau approved a waiver giving Pacific Gas...
The FCC Wireless Bureau approved a waiver giving Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) additional time to build a wide-area private land-mobile radio system in California using Part 22 and Part 90 spectrum. PG&E had asked that the construction deadline be…
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extended through June 2013. The utility, with 16 million customers, wants to replace its conventional voice mobile radio systems with a single integrated system at 450 MHz. The order said PG&E plans to spend about $30 million on the system, which will have more than 100 repeater sites and thousands of mobile and portable units. The purpose of the construction and permanent discontinuance rules is to ensure that use is made of licensed spectrum, the bureau said. “PG&E does not intend to warehouse the spectrum associated with its new Part 90 stations or its Part 22 and 90 stations acquired by assignment,” the order said. “Rather, it will use that spectrum in a new system, and already has taken concrete steps in addition to acquiring spectrum."