Speaking this week at the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials conference in Philadelphia, David Furth — deputy chief of the FCC’s public safety and homeland security bureau — cautioned operators of land-mobile-radio (LMR) systems operating at 512 MHz and below that the commission’s Jan. 1, 2013, deadline for narrowbanding those systems isn’t going to change.
“This deadline is out there, it’s in the commission’s rules and it’s not going to move,” Furth said.
Narrowbanding refers to the process of converting a system’s channel widths, from the current 25 kHz to 12.5 kHz, to facilitate more efficient use of available spectrum. The ultimate goal is 6.25 kHz-wide channels, but the FCC has yet to set a deadline for that.
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The FCC has stated often that it is prepared to enforce this rule, perhaps by fining non-compliant agencies or — in extreme cases — shutting them down.
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