The rebanding of a final group of 800...
The rebanding of a final group of 800 MHz public safety agencies, those located along the Mexican border, is under way and about 195 licensees there are expected to have to retune their systems, the 800 MHz Transition Administrator said…
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in a report filed Friday at the FCC. The U.S. and Mexico agreed last year to an amended protocol, which takes into account the FCC’s landmark 2004 800 MHz rebanding order (CD June 7/12 p7). “With most non-border licensees and Canadian border licensees having completed physical retuning, the TA’s focus is on those licensees that have not finished,” the TA said (http://bit.ly/1cFRG0S). “Licensees that have not completed physical retuning should expeditiously complete their implementation activities,” the TA said. “A delay in the completion of an implementation task by a licensee that has a downstream impact on other licensees (i.e., by blocking another licensee’s replacement frequencies or because the first touch of its subscriber units needs to be completed before an interoperable licensee can retune its infrastructure) can have a cascading effect and cause delays for other dependent licensees and, in some cases, for an entire region."