The FCC granted the county of Hawai'i a 21-month waiver...
The FCC granted the county of Hawai'i a 21-month waiver to release it from the VHF/UHF narrowbanding deadline of Jan. 31, the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau said Thursday (http://xrl.us/bnmw8c). The new deadline for the county will be Sept.…
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30, 2014, the filing said. Then it'll need to change its private land mobile radio licensees in the 150-174 MHz and 450-512 MHz bands to operate in a channel bandwidth of no more than 12.5 kHz, the FCC said. “The County warrants waiver relief because it has demonstrated that the underlying purpose of the narrowbanding rule -- to promote spectrum efficiency -- would not be served or would be frustrated by application to the present case, and that a grant of the waiver would be in the public interest,” the FCC noted. “Based on these facts, including the County’s assertion that it expects to be narrowband-compliant within fewer than two years after the January 1, 2013 deadline, we find that strict enforcement of the narrowbanding deadline under these circumstances would not serve the underlying purpose of the rule."