Extend T-Band Life for at Least 5 More Years, Seybold Says
Public safety consultant Andrew Seybold said Congress should look at “extending the life of the T-band for another five or more years,” in an emailed newsletter Thursday. “Perhaps it is time to put together an effort on behalf of the…
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cities that will lose most if not all of their LMR [land mobile radio] radio communications in the not-[too]-distant future and to once again walk the halls and shake the hands of the telecommunications staffers.” He said an auction of T-band spectrum wouldn't be viable and it’s not suited for mobile broadband systems. The problem lies in how Congress drafted the 2012 Spectrum Act, he said: “Many in Congress made it clear they expected Public Safety to ‘give back’ spectrum in exchange for the ‘D’ block. In several of the bills introduced by Congress, various portions of the spectrum were mentioned. The most onerous was one bill that would have required Public Safety to give back all spectrum it occupied from 150 MHz to 470 MHz. This was quashed when the Public Safety Alliance met with some of the staffers and explained that this spectrum was not only allocated to Public Safety but to thousands of other types of radio systems as well.”