House Lawmakers Planning to File Legislation to Repeal T-Band Reallocation, Migration Mandate
Reps. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., and Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., plan to soon file their Don’t Break Up the T-Band Act in a bid to repeal a provision of the 2012 spectrum law that mandates that public safety agencies move off the…
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470-512 MHz T-band by 2021, a Capitol Hill aide and two industry lobbyists told us. Introduction was expected to have occurred as soon as Monday evening. The lawmakers are moving forward with the measure after a briefing with public safety officials earlier this month, the aide said. “This spectrum is essential to public safety and for many public safety entities there is nowhere else to move,” Engel and Zeldin said in a letter to fellow House members. Their spokesmen didn’t immediately comment. House Homeland Security Communications Subcommittee Chairman Dan Donovan, R-N.Y. , and other subcommittee members raised concerns about the effects of public safety agencies’ mandated migration off the T-band, during an October hearing (see 1710120053).