The FCC Public Safety Bureau...
The FCC Public Safety Bureau approved Pima County, Arizona, Community College District’s (PCC) request for a waiver of an FCC requirement for licensees retooling their systems under the 800 MHz rebanding. The rules require licensees submit requests for system upgrades…
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in lieu of rebanding facilities by the due date for their rebanding cost estimate. PCC submitted its cost estimate to Sprint in January, but then decided to migrate its operations to the Pima County Wireless Integrated Network. “Moving to PCWIN will provide seamless interoperability among public safety entities in the area, which capability is particularly critical during crisis situations such as the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords [D] in 2011,” PCC said, according to a bureau letter to the district Wednesday (http://bit.ly/1hPfbZ5). PCC is right that an “underlying purpose” of the requirement is “the avoidance of delay in rebanding that occurs when upgrade proposals are untimely made,” the bureau said. “PCC has successfully shown that such delay will not occur in PCC’s case. Therefore, grant of a waiver would not frustrate the purpose of the notification requirement."