The FCC Public Safety Bureau approved a 10-month waiver of...
The FCC Public Safety Bureau approved a 10-month waiver of its Jan. 1 narrowbanding mandate for the state of Oregon. “The record shows that Oregon has exercised due diligence and good faith in its efforts to timely comply with the…
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narrowbanding requirements since 2005,” the bureau said (http://xrl.us/bnmhyn). “The record also shows that Oregon had to abandon its original plan -- by which the State was to migrate to a 700 MHz digital trunked system and relinquish its UHF and VHF frequencies, thus eliminating the need to upgrade the VHF/UHF systems -- because of the State’s budgetary problems. In addition, the record shows that, notwithstanding its best efforts to comply with the narrowbanding deadline, Oregon encountered several technical and weather-related problems that substantially affected its ability to complete its revised plan to upgrade its aging UHF/VHF radio systems on schedule."