Public Safety Applications in 4.9 GHz Growing
Usage of the new FCC approved frequencies in the 4.9 GHz bandwidth is growing. The band offers a number of benefits:
- Allocated just for public safety related agencies
- Simplified licensing process
- Broadband capability
- Point-to-point uses
- Multi-point uses
- Unique, rapid deployment applications
Long Beach CA was the site in May for a remarkable demonstration of the many technologies being developed for the 4.9GHz band. Participating agencies included police, fire and EMS communicating with ground, helicopter, incident command and emergency command center staff using voice, video and data. Various types of equipment from differing vendors were deployed.
Day Wireless can help with design and deployment of these systems. For more information on the various applications, visit the attached website.
www.publicsafetycommunications.org
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau to Enhance its
Universal Licensing System to More Accurately Reflect
Termination of Unconstructed Licenses
The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (Bureau) has initiated the development of an automated feature in its Universal Licensing System (ULS) to identify licenses that have terminated automatically for failure to meet construction or coverage requirements. This enhanced capability will increase the accuracy of the Commission’s licensing records, as well as expedite the reassignment of unused spectrum. The Bureau anticipates implementing this feature in June 2005. In the interim, the Bureau urges licensees to review their licensing records to ensure that construction notifications (where required) have been properly filed.
Upon implementation, ULS will identify those licenses or frequencies for which a timely notice of construction or a request for an extension of the construction or coverage period was not filed by the required deadlines. For those licenses or frequencies identified, ULS will generate a notice to the licensee at its official address of record in ULS announcing the termination of its authorization, and will list the license or frequency in a weekly Public Notice announcing the authorization termination, thirty (30) days after the deadline for construction or coverage. The licensee then will have thirty (30) days from the date of the Public Notice to file a petition for reconsideration. Once the time period for filing a petition for reconsideration has lapsed, ULS will automatically change the status of the license or frequency to “terminated,” and the termination will be effective on the date when the construction or coverage period expired. In addition, the license or frequency thereafter will be available for the Commission to reassign.
Prior to this implementation, the Bureau in May 2002 began sending construction and coverage reminder notices ninety (90) days prior to the expiration of the relevant construction or coverage period, to certain wireless service licensees that have construction or coverage performance requirements. This service has proven very beneficial to both wireless licensees and the Bureau. The enhancement of ULS to add an automatic termination notification feature will increase the accuracy of our licensing records and expedite reassignment of unused spectrum.
The timeline below summarizes the complete automatic termination process:
Over the next few months, the Bureau will continue its public outreach program to provide additional information about the automatic license termination program and its implementation. The Bureau has established an Internet site dedicated to information on construction and coverage requirements, including how to check a license in ULS for the relevant construction or coverage period. This site is located at http://wireless.fcc.gov/licensing/const-req. Licensees that timely have met their construction or coverage requirement, but have failed to provide the required notification, should take immediate steps to prevent license termination. Such licensees should file FCC Form 601, Schedule K together with a request for waiver of the rule that requires timely filing of notice.
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