FCC should have cracked whip earlier
BALTIMORE–Yesterday, Derek Poarch, chief of the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, told attendees of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials conference being held here that the commission intends to stick to its timetable for completing the reconfiguration of 800 MHz airwaves. He also said that public-safety licensees shouldn’t count on receiving extensions, even though the reconfiguration process is well behind schedule. Today, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin backed him up