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Regional Planning Committee Process Current Topics and Ongoing Regional Planning Issues
April 4, 2016The 700 and 800 MHz Regional Planning Committees (RPC’s) – groups of volunteers tasked by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)…
Read full articleU.S. & Canada Reach Agreement on Border Spectrum Sharing Arrangements
May 15, 2013The FCC and its Canadian counterpart, Industry Canada, have agreed, through a process known as an exchange of letters, on 10 interim spectrum sharing arrangements covering operations in their common border area.
Read full articlePalisades Interstate Parkway Police Department, N.J., 1st to Migrate to Statewide Radio System
February 19, 2013The Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department has become the first agency in New Jersey to migrate radio communications onto the new State of New Jersey P.S.I.C. system. The P.S.I.C. system, short for Public Safety Interoperable Communications, is a statewide trunking radio system which operates on the new 700 MHz public safety spectrum.
Read full articleGov. O’Malley Makes First Call on Radio System Connecting Maryland’s First Responders
June 6, 2012From the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Gov. Martin O’Malley contacted state police and local government officials at Pikesville, Cecil County, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and Kent County on the Eastern Shore when he made the first call on the Maryland First Responders Interoperable Radio System Team, or “Maryland FiRST.”
Read full articlePublic Safety & Homeland Security Bureau Seeks Comment on Transition Process for 700 MHz Public Safety Broadband Waiver Recipients
April 9, 2012On February 22, 2012, the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (Spectrum Act or Act)1 became law.2 The Spectrum Act directs the Commission to reallocate the 700 MHz “D Block” (758-763 MHz/788-793 MHz) for public safety services and to assign a license for both the D Block and the existing public safety broadband spectrum (763-769 MHz/793-799 MHz) to the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet).
Read full articleJoint Senate Commerce and Waxman Letters to Super Committee Call for D Block Allocation to Public Safety
October 18, 2011The Public Safety Alliance (PSA) today applauded Ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee Henry Waxman, and Senators Rockefeller and Hutchison, as the leaders of the Senate Commerce Committee, for their continued support in pushing for comprehensive spectrum legislation to be enacted in Congress this year for jobs, the economy, deficit reduction and public safety.
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