FCC Waives 800 MHz Wave 4 Freeze for Arizona's Maricopa County
The FCC Public Safety Bureau waived the 800 MHz Wave 4 application freeze along the U.S. border with Mexico to permit Arizona’s Maricopa County to operate on 10 National Public Safety Planning Advisory Committee frequencies for mobile-only communications in conventional…
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mode, said a Monday order. The county asked “to deploy 800 MHz spectrum as a platform for a talk-around capability of a new Project-25 public safety radio system designed to serve the county’s population of over four million people,” the bureau said. The selected channels are unlikely to cause interference to other public safety users because they’re currently vacant, nor should the proposal impair rebanding, the bureau said.