FCC Makes 800 MHz Channels Available Post-Rebanding
The FCC Wednesday announced post-rebanding availability of 800 MHz channels in all National Public Safety Planning Advisory Committee regions. The Wireless and Public Safety bureaus listed 14 regions where rebanding is “newly complete” and counties on the U.S-Mexico border region…
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where the freeze is now lifted. In the newly opened regions, “channels in the interleaved segment of the band that have been vacated by Sprint … are now available for licensing to public safety entities and, later, to critical infrastructure entities,” the notice said: “Unoccupied channels in the Expansion Band and Guard Band are available for licensing.” Commissioners approved an 4-0 order in April finding rebanding is complete (see 2104220056). “It's been a long time coming, but we are generally pleased with this decision since rebanding … had been completed for a while,” emailed Mark Crosby, president of the Enterprise Wireless Alliance.