FCC Approves Waiver for Public Safety Communications in U.S. Virgin Islands
The FCC Public Safety Bureau approved a waiver allowing the Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands (GVI) to use frequency 157.4500 MHz for voice communications to “strengthen and expand its public safety system.” The bureau said “GVI has no reasonable…
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alternative” to the channel, otherwise allocated for limited-area, hospital one-way paging systems. “We find particularly persuasive the statement from GVI’s contractor that there is no other frequency immediately available that can satisfy the requested public safety use, i.e., spectrum in the 150-160 MHz band that is compatible with existing infrastructure and enables it to remain interoperable,” the bureau said Monday.