The city of Houston asked the FCC for a waiver...
The city of Houston asked the FCC for a waiver of the commission’s Jan. 1 narrowbanding deadline until Aug. 31. The city “has planned for the replacement of its aging communications system and is committed to meeting the FCC’s…
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narrowbanding requirements as defined in this Request for Waiver,” Houston said (http://xrl.us/bn3v93). “The City fully expects to meet this mandatory narrowbanding requirement as quickly as possible ... . Because most of our system infrastructure equipment is not capable of conversion to 12.5 kHz operation, we are in the process of replacing our system with a fully digital 700 MHz Project 25 multi-simulcast system.” Houston said it had planned to meet the deadline, but has had to address software issues with its radios after concerns were raised by its radio vendor, Motorola.