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  • It's called "narrowbanding," and it will force public-safety agencies like police and fire departments to upgrade their radio equipment in the next two and a half years.

    EMSResponder.com: Top EMS News Jenna Portnoy 2010

  • John H. Cunnington Jr., project manager for L.R. Kimball, the Cambria County firm that conducted the study, said the goal of the FCC requirement, known as "narrowbanding," is to reuse frequencies made available by the switch last year to digital television and to take advantage of advances in technology to move channels closer together on the figurative radio dial.

    phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed 2010

  • It's called "narrowbanding," and it will force public-safety agencies like police and fire departments to upgrade their radio equipment in the next two and a half years.

    EMSResponder.com: Top EMS News Jenna Portnoy 2010

  • The process is known as "narrowbanding" because it will reduce the bandwidth of radio channels in use.

    GJSentinel - Latest News Headlines 2009

  • Oregon State Police, and initiates an integrated statewide network that will allow Oregon to comply with the federal narrowbanding mandate that governs spectrum use for land mobile radio LMR systems.

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  • The series will begin on Thursday, September 8, 2011 and will address three main topics: radio/narrowbanding, Next Generation 9-1-1 and consolidation.

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  • While waiving these 2011 narrowbanding deadlines, the FCC order maintained the agency's position that no 25 kHz-capable system expansions be approved - and no new 25 kHz-capable equipment be certified - after Jan. 1, 2011.

    Urgent Communications RSS 2010

  • NPSTC expressed concern that FCC enforcement of these 2011 deadlines would make it difficult for public-safety entities to find replacement equipment for existing 25 kHz-channel equipment and that the 6.25 equivalency requirement would result in public safety paying more for narrowbanding equipment than would necessary.

    Urgent Communications RSS 2010

  • With the questions surrounding the 2011 deadlines clarified, the narrowbanding focus will shift to meeting the Jan. 1, 2013, deadline, at which time LMR systems operating in the

    Urgent Communications RSS 2010

  • Significant interim narrowbanding deadlines scheduled to take effect at the end of this year were eliminated by the FCC, which reiterated plans to have most public-safety networks operating on spectrum below 512 MHz utilize 12.5 kHz channels instead of 25 kHz channels by

    Urgent Communications RSS 2010

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