Freeze on High Power Use of the 460-470 MHz Band Extended

Zusammenfassung

In this document the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announces that its freeze on the filing of applications for high power operations on 12.5 kHz offset channels in the private land mobile radio 460-470 MHz band, which had been originally set to expire October 16, 2003, will instead be extended. In June 2000, the FCC established the Wireless Medical Telemetry Service (WMTS), and allotted a total of 13.5 megahertz of spectrum on a primary basis in three blocks (608-614 MHz, 395-1400 MHz, and 1427-1429.5). To prevent potential interference to medical telemetry operations the FCC froze applications for high power use of offset channels in the 460-470 MHz band on October 16, 2000 for a period not to exceed three years. Thus, the freeze was set to expire on October 16, 2003. The purpose of the three year freeze was to give hospitals sufficient time to migrate their medical telemetry operations from the 460-470 MHz band to the new WMTS bands.