[TrunkCom] Re: 800 Mhz Rebanding- 80% of occupants agree to move Public Safety to 700 Mhz

[JERRY NONE]

Forget buying that new scanenr for 600 dollars 
( Scanner and P-25 board. )
--- iDEN-i100 <Marcelrf@BELLSOUTH.NET> wrote:
> It maybe time to break out those 700 Mhz scanners /
> radios kiddies!
> 
> Nextel wants public safety to go to the Federal
> Government for additional funding for the
> move.
> 
> Here is who backs the deal.
> 
> Partial list of Consensus Plan
> signatories and supporters:
> 
> Public Safety organizations:
> 
> 
> APCO (Association of Public-Safety
> Communications Officials-International)
> IACP (International Association of
> Chiefs of Police)
> IAFC (Internat'l Association of Fire Chiefs)
> IMSA (Internat'l Municipal Signal Association
> Major Cities Chiefs Association
> Major County Sheriffs� Association
> National Sheriffs� Association
> 
> Private Radio communications
> organizations and individual companies
> as part of the  �Private Wireless Coalition�
> include:
> 
> Aeronautical Radio
> American Mobile Telecommunications Association
> American Petroleum Institute
> Association of American Railroads
> Forest Industries Telecommunications
> Industrial Telecommunications Association
> Personal Communications Industry Association
> Taxicab, Limousine and Paratransit Association
> 
>
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> 
> Nextel says has new spectrum-swap plan for FCC
> 
> Nextel Communications Inc., the No. 5 U.S. wireless
> telephone company, on Wednesday said
> it had filed a
> compromise spectrum-swap plan with federal
> regulators it said would keep cell phone
> traffic
> from interfering with emergency safety broadcasts.
> 
> The new plan, which follows a public comment period,
> proposes that the
> 800 MHz band be split into two blocks, company
> representatives said on
> a conference call.
> 
> The 800 MHz band currently carries traffic from
> Nextel, public safety
> operators, private wireless operators such as
> utilities and corporations and
> cellular operators, including AT&T Wireless Services
> Inc. (NYSE:AWE -
> News) and Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ - News),
> Nextel said.
> 
> Reston, Virginia-based Nextel, which said the
> revised plan incorporates
> concerns from various industry groups, proposed that
> public safety
> agencies, businesses and mobile radio licensees
> remain on a noncellular
> 20-megahertz block on the 800 MHz band, while Nextel
> relocates to a
> cellular 16-megahertz block on the band.
> 
> The new plan also proposes Nextel return 4 megahertz
> of its 700 MHz band license and 4 MHz
> of
> its 900 MHz spectrum license to the FCC in exchange
> for a 10 megahertz block on the 1.9
> GHz band, a company
> spokeswoman told Reuters.
> 
> The 700 MHz band would be used by public safety
> agencies and the 900 MHz band would be
> used
> by businesses, the spokeswoman said.
> 
> Legg Mason analysts in a research note on Wednesday
> wrote that Nextel's goal of having
> contiguous spectrum would lower the wireless
> company's capital spending over the long-term
> and increase its attractiveness to
> other carriers.
> 
> Nextel in November 2001 initially proposed to the
> Federal Communications Commission a
> public-private partnership allowing the company to
> create blocks of contiguous spectrum
> for public safety agencies to avoid
> interference, such as wireless calls crossing and
> blocking police and fire department
> airwaves.
> 
> The company had proposed that public safety agencies
> have a 20-megahertz block of
> contiguous
> spectrum in the 800 MHz band, which would have more
> than doubled the spectrum public
> safety agencies have.
> 
> The Reston, Virginia-based company offered to trade
> 16 megahertz of its licensed spectrum
> in
> the 700, 800 and 900 MHz bands, with public safety
> licensees for 6 megahertz in the upper
> 800 MHz and 10 megahertz in
> the 2.1 GHz band slotted for satellite services.
> 
> Nextel's wireless rivals were concerned its initial
> proposal, which was backed by a number
> of
> public safety associations, would leave the company
> with a more valuable slice of
> spectrum.
> 
> Nextel's latest proposal has the backing of the
> Private Wireless Coalition, which includes
> 
> such industry groups as the American Petroleum
> Institute, the American Mobile
> Telecommunications Association and the Association
> of American Railroads.
> 
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