RSSThe FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) is seeking comment on a request by an Illinois water company to share public-safety frequencies.
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The Illinois American Water Company (ILAW) asked for a waiver of the FCC’s rules to allow it to use frequencies reserved for public-safety entities, even though it is not a public-safety entity itself. Specifically, ILAW asked for waiver of the rules to allow it to share 800 MHz public-safety frequencies on the STARCOM21 network. ILAW also requested that it be deemed situationally eligible to use 700 MHz public-safety frequencies on the STARCOM21 network but only on a secondary and pre-emptible basis, limited strictly to emergency events involving preservation and safe delivery of water resources or removal of wastewater.
The STARCOM21 network provides communications services to public-safety and public sector agencies.
Comments on the request are due March 3, and reply comments are due March 18. Find the full notice here.
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