| | 800 MHz Interference Issue & Rebanding |
 | | Beginning in early 2000, several public safety agencies using 800 MHz trunked radio systems discovered that mobile communications were sometimes disrupted--a mobile or or portable radio could not receive or transmit in certain geographic areas. |
 | | The plan moves Nextel and other carriers out of areas of the 800 MHz band where they are interleaved with public safety, and creates larger, contiguous allocations devoted to just Nextel or public safety, thereby reducing the chances for adjacent channel interference. |
 | | The plan essentially splits the two existing, paired18 MHz allocations into two parts: public safety is allocated the lower 10 MHz of each band (806-816 MHz and 851-861 MHz, channel 1-400), while the upper 8 MHz would be assigned to commercial services (816-824 MHz and 861-869 MHz, channels 401-720). |
| www.911dispatch.com /info/800_transition (2848 words) |