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FCC issues narrowbanding reminder

FCC issues narrowbanding reminder

With just a few weeks to go, it is estimated that as many as 35% of affected licensees will not meet the commission's Jan. 1 deadline for converting LMR systems below 512 MHz to 12.5 kHz-wide channels.
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  • 4th December 2012

With four weeks until LMR systems operating below 512 MHz are required to utilize 12.5 kHz channels instead of the traditional 25 kHz channels, it is clear that a significant percentage of affected networks will not be updated in time to comply with the FCC’s narrowbanding deadline.

“I think the commission’s enforcement staff is going to be very busy,” Ralph Haller, general manager of the frequency-coordination operation for the International Municipal Signal Association/International Association of Fire Chiefs (IMSA/IAFC) and the Forestry Conservation Communications Association (FCCA) partnership, said during an interview with Urgent Communications. “I don’t know what the commission is going to do. I think they’re going to have a big task ahead of them to really ferret out people who are not in compliance.”

Various industry sources have estimated that 20-35% of affected licensees will not be in compliance with the FCC’s narrowband mandate, which becomes effective on Jan. 1, as the agency reminded in a public notice issued on Friday. Haller said that he does not have data regarding the number of potential licensees that will not meet the narrowbanding mandate, but he said the 20-35% estimate is probably “not a bad guess.”

Haller added that he is seeing a lot of last-minute applications from entities trying to modify their licenses to narrowband their systems to 12.5 kHz channels, but that does not necessarily mean that they have changed their systems appropriately.

“The only thing we know for sure is whether someone has narrowband emissions on the license or not,” he said. “Obviously, if it has narrowband only on the license, then you can assume they’re operating narrowband. If it’s got both narrowband and wideband, you have to assume they’re narrowband, but there’s just no way to tell if they really are, short of contacting them or the FCC actually monitoring them.”

POLL: How should the FCC instruct frequency coordinators to protect licensees that do not meet the Jan. 1, 2013, deadline to narrowband their LMR systems and do not have a waiver or pending waiver request?

Indeed, the FCC has indicated that it plans to enforce the narrowbanding mandate, but the agency plans only to act in situations where complaints are filed. In addition, frequency coordinators will begin treating systems as if they are narrowbanded as of Feb. 1.

“Up until Feb. 1, if there is wideband on the license, we’re still going to protect it as wideband,” Haller said. “But, on Feb. 1, it’s going to be protected as narrowband and … on the assumption that they are still active, they’ll be protected as narrowband.”

RELATED: FCC plans to enforce UHF/VHF narrowbanding mandate

In addition, licensees will be continue to be protected if they operate in the T-Band, have received a waiver from the FCC, or have a waiver request pending before the commission.

Because of the late date, Haller said that his frequency coordinators no longer are guaranteeing that applications filed now will be processed in time to meet the FCC’s narrowbanding deadline, but he encourages all licensees to apply as soon as possible.

“Better late than never,” Haller said, noting that he does not believe FCC enforcement will begin taking action on Jan. 2.

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3 comments

  1. Avatar Anonymous 10th December 2012 @ 3:21 am
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    Mr. Jackson,
    This is the

    Mr. Jackson,

    This is the second article you’ve written about narrowbanding in which you’ve incorrectly stated “below 512 MHz”. The FCC issued a full waiver for T-Band back in April, ergo it is “below 470 MHz”.

  2. Avatar Anonymous5 31st December 2012 @ 2:56 pm
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    Why would he take the time to
    Why would he take the time to research a real issuet? He is too busy playing cheerleader for the manufacturers phony baloney push to wait cell phone national network. Everytime you read this publication Donny or Glenn are touting how public safety asked for this nation wide network. Well, not really. A few, well connected, industry & manufacturer feed persons pushed this. My thought, my real instinct is that public safety on a whole does not want this. They want simple, reliable communications that work and is robust. We don’t need a new 14 year old girls play toy so we can snap pictures and send them across the country. We have a entire multi billion dollar solution for that already, it’s called commercial cellular. Let them deal with the issues of hardening their networks. It is far about time that this publication start addressing the real needs of public safety. Just ask the people in greater Chicago and New York ( Not NYC) how they are going to deal with the t band being forcefully taken away with no safety net or no real network to go on to. It’s a laugable joke – but I guess only to some.

  3. Avatar Anonymous 2nd January 2013 @ 6:54 pm
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    In addition, licensees will
    In addition, licensees will be continue to be protected if they operate in the T-Band, have received a waiver from the FCC, or have a waiver request pending before the commission.

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