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Current Rules <br />The following key transition dates were specified for 150 MHz (VHF) and 450 MHz (LTHF) <br />Public Safety licensees: <br />January 1, 2011: (a) Denies applications for new licenses, or modifications to existing licenses <br />that request expansion of existing service coverage, which do not meet <br />specific spectrum efficiency standards; and <br />(b) Prohibits manufacture and importation of equipment not meeting specific <br />spectrum efficiency standards. <br />January 1, 2013: Deadline for use of equipment meeting specific spectrum efficiency standards. <br />Effective January 1, 2011, the County will not 6e permitted to expand the coverage area of its <br />current system (r.e., make coverare improvements), unless it converts to more spectrally <br />efficient technology. Concurrently, the FCC will prohibit manufacture and importation of <br />equipment not meeting specific spectrum efficiency standards. <br />Furthermore, the FCC has established January 1, 2013 as the mandatory deadline for final <br />conversion to more efficient technology. Thus, the County will not be permitted to operate in <br />its current "legacy" (wideband) mode of operation after this date. <br />Compliance will require the County to either modify its legacy analog equipment to <br />"narrowband" operation (or replace some models that are incapable of such modification), or <br />eventually replace its analog equipment with digital models that are inherently narrowband. <br />END <br />