California City Gets Extra Year to Complete Public Safety Build; PR City Gets License Back
The FCC Public Safety Bureau extended until June the deadline for Long Beach, California, to build four channels needed for its 700 MHz trunked public safety network. The one-year extension serves "the underlying purpose of the rule governing extensions, which…
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is to avoid spectrum hoarding but still provide an adequate time to construct a large, complex communications system,” said Wednesday's order. “The City has adequately explained the conditions which prevented it from completing construction by June 17, 2018.” The bureau also reinstated Yauco, Puerto Rico's license to use three VHF stations in its public safety network. The construction deadline was March 20 and the licenses were terminated when Yauco didn’t provide notification the stations were in operation. The city said problems caused by Hurricane Maria last year, “including damage to license records and the lack of electrical power,” meant it didn’t file on time.