Land Mobile Communications Council (LMCC), which includes every FCC-certified frequency...
Land Mobile Communications Council (LMCC), which includes every FCC-certified frequency coordinator, asked the commission to get tough on licensees in the 150-470 MHz bands that miss the Jan. 1 deadline to narrowband their systems and don’t get an FCC waiver.…
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A recent public notice from the Wireless and Public Safety bureaus mischaracterized LMCC’s position, the letter said. The bureaus said LMCC’s position is “effective February 1, 2013, frequency coordinators will treat incumbent non-compliant 25 kHz systems as 12.5 kHz systems for purposes of identifying frequency assignments.” LMCC instead asked that starting Feb. 1 noncompliant 25 kHz systems “not be considered by the Industrial/Business and Public Safety frequency advisory committees for purposes of identifying frequency assignments for use with land mobile systems,” the letter said. “The FCC’s reading of the LMCC recommendation provides a substantive, unearned benefit to non-compliant licensees at the expense of those that complied in a timely manner with the FCC’s narrowbanding mandate,” the council said. “Rather than providing the incentive intended by LMCC for licensees to bring non-compliant wideband systems into narrowbanding compliance or risk coordination of an ‘overlay’ exclusive use assignment, licensees of such systems would be treated as though they were compliant already.” Mark Crosby, LMCC secretary, told us LMCC’s proposal would offer a “meaningful way” to get licensees into compliance with the narrowbanding mandate.