The Public Safety Spectrum Trust Operator Advisory Committee sought a...
The Public Safety Spectrum Trust Operator Advisory Committee sought a waiver of a requirement that the 700 MHz waiver recipients use the services of a clearinghouse vendor. The requirement was imposed in a January order from the Public Safety Bureau…
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prior to the late February approval of key spectrum legislation by Congress, the committee notes (http://xrl.us/bm5sht). The committee is made up of government groups that plan to build local public safety networks in the 700 MHz band, ahead of FirstNet, the national network partly funded by the spectrum legislation. “The Spectrum Act assigns responsibility to FirstNet to enter into roaming agreements with commercial network providers,” the committee said in a waiver request filed at the FCC. “It may frustrate the intention of Congress, in establishing FirstNet, if the Petitioners attempt to enter into roaming agreements or obtain the services of a clearinghouse entity, whose sole purpose is to ‘manage the relationships with commercial roaming partners.'” As a result of the spectrum law, the waiver recipients “believe the requirement for clearinghouse services no longer serves the Bureau’s intended purposes,” they said.