The FCC Public Safety Bureau said it will...
The FCC Public Safety Bureau said it will hold in abeyance a request for a further waiver by Miami-Dade County, Florida, of the original June 26, 2008, deadline for completion of the rebanding of its 800 MHz radios. Sprint had…
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requested the FCC ask several questions of the county before extending the waiver, the bureau said Wednesday. Sprint had said the rebanding had started in 2005 and “it is the last licensee, excepting those in border states, to return frequencies in the ‘old’ NPSPAC band to Sprint,” the bureau said. Much of the delay is attributable to Miami-Dade’s decision to replace, rather than reband, its 800 MHz communications system, the bureau said (http://bit.ly/Utj8Ye). “We impress on Miami-Dade the imperative of completing its firmware reprogramming in the shortest feasible time."