Public Safety Bureau Extends Boeing's 800 MHz Rebanding Deadline to April 30
The FCC Public Safety Bureau granted Boeing’s request Thursday for an extension to April 30 to complete 800 MHz rebanding of its 800 MHz facilities around the U.S.-Canada border. Boeing said in its Feb. 17 waiver request that it had…
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substantially completed rebanding but needed to retune several bi-directional amplifiers (BDAs) used in its system. The requested extension is “modest and we credit Boeing’s representation that '[t]he need to retune and validate the performance of these BDAs was not identified until after the completion of the fixed network equipment rebanding,'” the bureau said in a letter to outside Boeing counsel Bruce Olcott of Jones Day. Boeing’s rebanding had also been delayed by the FCC’s need to coordinate frequencies with the Canadian government, the commission said. Boeing doesn’t need to close its frequency reconciliation agreement with Nextel West by April 30, but should do so “as soon as possible, the FCC said.