Wave 1 - Wave 4, Non-Border Regions
Canada Border Region
Mexico Border Region
Puerto Rico & U.S. Virgin Islands
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Current Status - The band plan for the U.S.-Mexico border region is still under development. On December 29, 2011, the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau released a Public Notice (DA 11-2087) that extended the negotiation period until April 2, 2012 and postponed the start of the mediation period until April 3, 2012 for Wave 4 non-NPSPAC (Stage 1) and NPSPAC (Stage 2) licensees in the U.S.-Mexico border region. It also extended the filing freeze on new applications in the U.S.-Mexico border region until May 14, 2012.
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Public safety radio systems - those used by police, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and other systems operating on the 800 MHz Band - have been experiencing increasing levels of interference and "dead zones" as a result of commercial wireless carriers operating in the same or adjacent spectrum bands.
Reconfiguration is designed to alleviate this interference by spectrally separating the two types of systems.
The 800 MHz reconfiguration program is part of the FCC's plan to promote safety and protect the lives of first responders and other emergency personnel by addressing the harmful interference to public safety communication systems operating in the 800 MHz Band.
The 800 MHz Transition Administrator, LLC (TA) serves as the Transition Administrator for the reconfiguration of the 800 MHz Band mandated by the FCC.
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Although licensees in the U.S.-Mexico border region are not required to engage in planning or negotiations prior to receiving frequency proposals from the TA, the FCC encourages them "to engage in such activities to the extent that they are not frequency-dependent and would not result in unnecessary duplication of costs."
Such licensees can participate in the following activities to facilitate the rebanding process:
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Licensees in the U.S-Mexico border region are not subject to the June 26, 2008 deadline for completion of rebanding and are not required to file requests for waiver of this deadline.
The FCC will establish timelines for completion of reconfiguration by Mexican border region licensees at a later date.
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