FCC Announces Dates for 800 MHz Expansion, Guard Bands
The Wireless and Public Safety bureaus detailed dates and procedures for submitting applications in the 800 MHz band for expansion and guard band channels, and channels in the interleaved segment vacated by Sprint in three National Public Safety Planning Advisory…
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Committee regions. Also in Thursday's public notice in docket 02-55, the FCC announced dates and procedures for applications for expansion and guard band channels in 21 NPSPAC regions where licensing was previously deferred. Channels will be available for licensing July 18. The Sprint channels “will be available for licensing first to public safety applicants and later to [critical infrastructure industry] applicants,” the bureaus said. In a public notice the same day in dockets 15-91, the Public Safety Bureau said state licensees of 700 MHz narrowband channels must show by June 13 “that they are providing or prepared to provide ‘substantial service’ to two-thirds of their population or territory.”