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inigo88

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This will be fun to watch ...

It's interesting they're still pushing forward with plans to put the new system on T-Band considering the FCC's announcement of its uncertain future. Unless they backed down on that?
 

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It's interesting they're still pushing forward with plans to put the new system on T-Band considering the FCC's announcement of its uncertain future. Unless they backed down on that?

From a logistics standpoint, it makes sense to continue on T-band for now.

  • Procurement process is already underway
  • Many agencies already have compliant or compliant-capable mobiles and portables
  • Allows 800 MHz rebanding to take place before engineering spectrum-use plans for 700 & 800 MHz, which will have to be done in full cooperation with everybody else in 7 adjacent counties (source of my "fun to watch" comment, as we will be one of the 7)
  • Allows LTE development to 'mature' to the point of actually performing the data tasks
  • Allows the longer range site planning, acquisition, construction and network integration processes to take place for the additional 20+ sites that will be needed for 700/800 MHz
Also, keep in mind that the Fat Lady hasn't even started to warm up in the legislative opera on the T-band displacement issue. Both L.A. and NYC have significant influence in Congress. It would not surprise me to see in a couple of years that maybe 14 and 15 stay Public Safety (which would equate all of 700 MHz and the NPSPAC portion of 800 MHz in channel capacity).
 
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