FCC Seeks Answers on Future Use of Public Safety’s 700 MHz Narrowband Spectrum

摘要

The FCC sought comment on whether it should extend or eliminate a Dec. 31, 2016, deadline requiringn700 MHz public safety narrowband licensees to change over from a 12.5 kilohertz voice efficiencynstandard to a 6.25 kilohertz standard. The FCC also sought comment on a 2010 National Public SafetynTelecommunications Council petition asking the agency to amend its Part 90 rules to allow some air-togroundncommunications using 700 MHz interoperability channels on secondary trunking channels. ThenNPRM was attached to a report and order tweaking the rules for the 700 MHz narrowband spectrum.