Tennessee Gets Public Safety Waiver Despite 21-Year Freeze
The FCC Public Safety Bureau approved a waiver for the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security to license an 800 MHz business/industrial/land transportation (B/ILT) channel for public safety communications. The operations proposed by the state don’t make it a…
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B/ILT-eligible entity, so the department needs a waiver, the bureau said: “Stating that it has no other reasonable alternative, Tennessee seeks a waiver to license this B/ILT channel pair for statewide public safety use.” The Wireless Bureau also suspended the acceptance of applications for inter-category sharing of all private land mobile radio service frequencies in the 806-817/851-861 MHz bands starting in 1995, the order noted. “Under the circumstances presented, we are persuaded that grant of the Waiver Request to permit grant of the … application will not frustrate the underlying purpose of the inter-category sharing freeze -- protecting channels for public safety use,” the bureau said. “Indeed, Tennessee, as a public safety entity, is a member of the class whose interests the freeze is intended to protect.”