[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 10 (Friday, January 14, 2011)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 2598]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-811]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
47 CFR Part 90
[PS Docket No. 06-229; DA 10-2342]
Requests for Waiver of Various Petitioners To Allow the
Establishment of 700 MHz Interoperable Public Safety Wireless Broadband
Networks
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Final rule; waiver.
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SUMMARY: In this order, on recommendation of the Emergency Response
Interoperability Center (ERIC), the Public Safety and Homeland Security
Bureau (Bureau) approved an initial set of technical requirements for
public safety jurisdictions (Petitioners) that were granted conditional
waivers by the Commission for early deployment in the 700 MHz public
safety broadband spectrum. The order grants Petitioners that previously
declined to file an interoperability showing a renewed opportunity to
do so and to proceed with network deployment.
DATES: Effective December 10, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Manner, Federal
Communications Commission, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau,
445 12th Street, SW., Room 7-C761, Washington, DC 20554. Telephone:
(202) 418-3619, e-mail: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The initial set of technical
interoperability requirements approved in the order creates a baseline
technical interoperability framework for Petitioners' actual deployment
of public safety broadband networks in advance of the Commission's
adoption of final technical and operational rules for a nationwide
interoperable public safety broadband network. The requirements
approved in the order are essential to achieving nationwide
interoperability among early-deployed public safety broadband networks.
These requirements address core aspects of interoperability, such as
roaming capabilities and system identifiers, that are crucial to
ensuring that the users of disparate networks are capable of
communicating seamlessly. Also included are requirements that early-
deployed networks meet performance, coverage, and other requirements
necessary to ensure that early-deployed networks achieve a baseline of
operability sufficient to support interoperable communications.
Any Petitioner that previously filed an interoperability showing
detailing its plans for achieving interoperability, or that in the
future files, pursuant to the order, a showing that is subsequently
acted on by the Bureau, may proceed with build-out and operation of its
network upon submission to ERIC of a certification that its deployment
will satisfy each of the requirements approved in the order.
Federal Communications Commission.
Jennifer A. Manner,
Deputy Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau.
[FR Doc. 2011-811 Filed 1-13-11; 8:45 am]
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