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Urgent Communications Today

      November 3, 2009
      Volume 7, Number 89
Urgent Communications Today

In This Issue

Licensed TV spectrum ideas fraught with promise, problems
FCC seeks comments on NPSTC narrowbanding petition
Reporter's notebook
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Wavelengths

Licensed TV spectrum ideas fraught with promise, problems

By Donny Jackson

Last week, there was a lot of buzz surrounding numerous reports that the FCC is considering various proposals that would allow it to reclaim the vast amounts of spectrum being used by television broadcasters and auction it for licensed use.

Ask anyone in the wireless community, and they’ll quickly tell you there is not enough available spectrum — it’s one of the few items that virtually everyone agrees on, whether they come from the commercial, public-safety, utilities or transportation sector.

For this reason, the notion of reclaiming TV broadcast spectrum and auctioning it has a bunch of fans in the wireless world. Not surprisingly, the TV broadcasters aren’t happy at all with the notion, particularly after just completing the expensive process of making the transition to digital television to clear the 700 MHz band. Read More

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In the News

FCC seeks comments on NPSTC narrowbanding petition

By Donny Jackson

Whether current 2011 interim deadlines for narrowbanding between 150 MHz and 512 MHz should be stayed will be the subject of a comment period initiated yesterday by the FCC. Read More

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Reporter's Notebook

Reporter's notebook

A roundup of announcements from public-safety communications associations and vendors. By Mary Rose Roberts

Cherry Hill (N.J.) Police Department adopts Spillman software

Havis unveils DS-PAN-401

Azimuth Systems partners with Innowireless

Kentucky's Department of Administrative Services purchases fleet tracker

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