FCC Denies Connecticut City's 800 MHz Waiver Request
The FCC Public Safety Bureau denied a Connecticut city’s request for waiver to license 800 MHz expansion band channels for public safety communications. The reason for withholding that spectrum “is to avoid prejudicing an ongoing rulemaking proceeding regarding a proposal…
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to afford filing priority to 800 MHz incumbent licensees -- a purpose that would be frustrated were we to grant the requested waiver,” the bureau said in a Wednesday order on the request by New Britain. “Spectrum congestion in the 800 MHz band is neither a unique nor an unusual circumstance that makes denial of the waiver inequitable, unduly burdensome or contrary to the public interest.” New Britain could alternatively use Sprint-vacated frequencies in the interleaved band, available exclusively for public safety until Feb. 22, 2020, the bureau added.