The FCC Wireless and Public Safety bureaus suspended a Jan....
The FCC Wireless and Public Safety bureaus suspended a Jan. 1, 2013, requirement that private land mobile radio (PLMR) licensees in the T-band migrate to narrowband technology. The bureaus also announced a freeze on the processing of Part 22 and…
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Part 90 T-Band applications. Spectrum legislation enacted in February gives public safety use of the 700 MHz D-block, but requires agencies to vacate the T-band within nine years. “Pending further action by the Commission ... there is substantial uncertainty regarding whether application of the narrowbanding deadline in the T-Band would continue to serve its original purpose,” said the order addressing T-band narrowbanding (http://xrl.us/bm5agc). “Continuing to require narrowbanding could force many licensees in the band to invest in narrowband systems that may subsequently have to be relocated. In addition, Commission staff has taken steps to freeze future licensing in the 470-512 MHz band.” The order clarifies that T-band licensees also operating in the 150-174 MHz and 421-470 MHz bands must still meet the narrowbanding deadline with respect to those frequencies. The bureaus said they are ordering a freeze “to maintain a stable spectral landscape while the Commission determines how to implement” the spectrum legislation (http://xrl.us/bm5ahb).