700 MHz Plan Envisions One Licensee

The commission wants to know what Americans think about a centralized national approach that it says would maximize the access of public safety organizations to interoperable broadband spectrum in the 700 MHz band.

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Publish date:: Jan 4, 2007
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The commission wants to know what Americans think about a centralized national approach that it says would maximize the access of public safety organizations to interoperable broadband spectrum in the 700 MHz band.

That's the proposal in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which also seeks to promote deployment of "advanced broadband applications, related radio technologies and modern, IP-based system architecture."

The item proposes that the FCC allocate 12 megahertz of the 700 MHz public safety spectrum from wideband to broadband use, assign it nationwide to a single national public safety broadband licensee and permit that entity also to operate on a secondary basis on the narrowband public safety spectrum in the 700 MHz band.

(Radio World)

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The commission wants to know what Americans think about a centralized national approach that it says would maximize the access of public safety organizations to interoperable broadband spectrum in the 700 MHz band. That's the proposal in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which also seeks to promote deployment of "adva

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Congress has approved intelligence-reform legislation, including a nonbonding resolution that calls for Congress to address the DTV transition next year to clear the 700 MHz spectrum for commercial providers and public safety next year.

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The FCC has adopted a Second Report & Order dealing with the 698-806 MHz portion of the spectrum that is being vacated by television broadcasters as part of the DTV transition.