Radio_Lady
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If it actually eventually happens, this could be a potentially huge and expensive mess for public safety radio in L.A. County and the Bay Aea, especially all of LAPD and LASD, and much/most of LACoFD, ICIS, LA-RICS, and others. What (or) ARE these people thinking???
From Dispatch Magazine Online, Dispatch Magazine On-Line**********|*news and information about public safety communications
Congress Passes Epic Spectrum Bill
Congress Passes Epic Spectrum Bill*|*Dispatch Magazine On-Line*********
February 17, 2012 at 1:20 pm
"After years of lobbying by public safety groups, today the U.S. House and Senate approved legislation that will fulfill the spectrum needs to construct a nationwide wireless network that will support broadband voice and data. The bill also includes NG911 funding, [BUT] a frequency band give-back
"...the bill allocates the D Block of spectrum directly to public safety, a 20 MHz band that had originally been set for auction to a commercial enterprise in 2008. The bill also requires an auction of certain vacated television spectrum, with $7 billion of the auction proceeds going to fund a nationwide public safety wireless network."
However:
"...Legislators wanted spectrum in exchange for the D Block allocation, and compromised with a give-back of the T-Band (470-512 MHz) being used by agencies in major metropolitan areas.
The story later mentions somebody's (editor? Congressional staffer?) comment that "The FCC’s licensing database shows 3,233 licensees in the T-band under trunked and conventional categories for public safety agencies. However, the total number of agencies affected by the T-Band give-back could be fewer than 500"
Isn't that nice?
From Dispatch Magazine Online, Dispatch Magazine On-Line**********|*news and information about public safety communications
Congress Passes Epic Spectrum Bill
Congress Passes Epic Spectrum Bill*|*Dispatch Magazine On-Line*********
February 17, 2012 at 1:20 pm
"After years of lobbying by public safety groups, today the U.S. House and Senate approved legislation that will fulfill the spectrum needs to construct a nationwide wireless network that will support broadband voice and data. The bill also includes NG911 funding, [BUT] a frequency band give-back
"...the bill allocates the D Block of spectrum directly to public safety, a 20 MHz band that had originally been set for auction to a commercial enterprise in 2008. The bill also requires an auction of certain vacated television spectrum, with $7 billion of the auction proceeds going to fund a nationwide public safety wireless network."
However:
"...Legislators wanted spectrum in exchange for the D Block allocation, and compromised with a give-back of the T-Band (470-512 MHz) being used by agencies in major metropolitan areas.
The story later mentions somebody's (editor? Congressional staffer?) comment that "The FCC’s licensing database shows 3,233 licensees in the T-band under trunked and conventional categories for public safety agencies. However, the total number of agencies affected by the T-Band give-back could be fewer than 500"
Isn't that nice?
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