Los Angeles Gets Extended Deadline to Complete 67 T-Band Licenses
The FCC extended to Dec. 31 the construction completion deadline for 67 T-band licenses being deployed by the County of Los Angeles as part of the L.A. Regional Interoperable Communications System. The old deadline was the end of last year.…
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The county attributes delays to “ongoing interference” from a TV station in Tijuana, Mexico, the Public Safety Bureau said in a Thursday order: “The County claims that this interference has forced the County to redesign its entire system to attempt to minimize (to the greatest extent possible) the substantial interference being experienced, significantly delaying construction across several portions” of the system. “We find that the County has demonstrated reasonable diligence in attempting to construct its system in a timely fashion,” the bureau said. Strict enforcement of the deadlines “would be both inequitable and contrary to the public interest in that it would result in a waste of tax and federal grant dollars, strand investment in facilities already under construction, and, most importantly, deprive the citizens and first responders in the greater Los Angeles area of a critically needed, interoperable public safety communications system,” the bureau said.