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Page 1 of 2 Yuen, Cissy From: Godsey, Karl Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 11:18 AM To: Cachola, Romy Cc: Lee, Benjamin B.; Donohue, Lee D.; Tom, Malcolm J.; Kajiyama, Glen; Putrulu, Paul; Quinn, Cheryl Subject: 800 MHz to 700 MHz Aloha Councilmember Cachola: In response to your question "is HPD or any other City agencies planning to move from the 800 MHz spectrum to the 700 MHz spectrum" the short answer is no. However, Fire, Police, and the Department of Information Technology are members of the 700 MHZ PUBLIC SAFETY PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR REGION 11. This is a federally mandated committee that requires participation irI planning for the use of 700 MHz bandwidth that has been given to the Public Safety agencies in the State. As you are aware from our presentations about 800 MHz to the Council, 800 MHz bandwidth is interleavened with private cell companies. In order to address this concern, one thought is to provide contiguous bandwidth to Public Safety in order to overcome some of the interference issues that occur in 800 MHz. Using this bandwidth requires the formation of a governing committee before bandwidth can be designated. If there is to be a move to 700 MHz it will occur at least several years from now. The Federal Consensus plan on which this is predicated would require cell phone companies such as NEXTEL to pay for the movement of the 800 MHz users to 700 MHz. This is up in the air right now. Below I have included the Name and Purpose portion of the by-laws of the committee. I hope this answers your question. 700 MHZ PUBLIC SAFETY PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR REGION 11 ARTICLE I NAMF, ~ PLiRPOSE 1.1 Name and purpose. The name of this regional committee shall be "The 700 MHz Public Safety Planning Committee for Region 11" hereinafter referred to as the Regional Committee. Its primary purpose is to cooperatively develop, implement, maintain, and administer the frequency usage plan for the 700 MHz Public Safety Band within the state of Hawaii. The 700 MHz Public Safety Band is composed of the frequencies between 764 MHz and 776 MHz and the corresponding frequencies between 794 MHz and 806 MHz. The Regional Committee shall: Encourage the efficient and intensive use of the 700 MHz Public Safety Band, Enable the development of a regional interoperability plan, Accommodate new and as yet unanticipated developments in technology, systems, and equipment; and Promote the development of local and regional public safety communications systems designed to achieve interoperability and multiple agency public safety communications systems that ellectively accommodate all public safety services providers. 05/25/2004