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LMCC Asks FCC to Extend T-Band Suspension

The Land Mobile Communications Council asked the FCC Friday to clarify that it doesn’t plan to start accepting T-band applications, beyond those from incumbent licensees, after a suspension public notice (see 2106210025) expires Dec. 19. LMCC also asked the FCC…

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to renew the notice through June 30. A requirement to identify TV stations that applicants must protect “has presented significant obstacles to the orderly resumption of T-Band application and licensing processes contemplated in the Suspension Modification PN,” the council said it emailed two agency staffers, noting some are “ghost” stations that no longer exist. Some incumbents haven't filed applications because of the notice, the group said: The notice “has required others to modify their system parameters to less than optimal configurations that they plan to adjust when and if the protected television station list is corrected.”