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FCC Bureau Addresses Canadian Border 800 MHz Rebanding

The FCC Public Safety Bureau directed eight 800 MHz regional planning committees (RPCs) for National Public Safety Planning Advisory Committee regions bordering Canada to file amendments to their 800 MHz regional plans by Oct. 22 to bring them into conformity…

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with the new 800 MHz band plan. Alternatively, RPCs may elect “to file amended regional plans by December 19, 2018, that combine these conforming band reconfiguration-related changes with other modifications, provided that they notify the Bureau by October 22,” the bureau said. The change is in keeping with the FCC’s 2004 800 MHz rebanding order, the bureau said in docket 02-55.