Wireless Band Agreements Between US and Mexico Reached

When these two agreements were signed, it allowed the FCC to start moving forward with their longtime efforts to reconfigure the 800 MHz spectrum throughout the United States of America and provide contiguous spectrum to public safety agencies which lets them utilize response services that are wireless during emergencies. The Chairman of FCC, Julius Genachowski, has participated in previous discussions between the two countries at the Department of State in the United States. He said that the agreements with Mexico will start to benefit consumers and let loose investments throughout the borders by letting the advanced systems and wireless broadband services roll out for the emergency response communications and critical public safety sectors.This 800 MHz agreement will coordinate the distribution of band segments that the two countries have and let them plan how they set the technical parameters for operating within those segments found 68 miles of the border. This also replaced an agreement between Mexico and the United states which was made previously. Meanwhile, their agreement for the 1.9 GHz band will allow the deployment of mobile services throughout the border of Mexico by Sprint Nextel. In 2004, Sprint gained access to the 1.9 GHz band which was made as a compensation for vacating its spectrum which holds in the lower segment of its 800 MHz band in an effort to accomplish its rebanding project.According to what the RadioReference.com wiki stated, the commercial mobile and public safety services were first combined together within the same spectrum in the block of 800 MHz. There was significant interference with the communications in the public safety sector found by FCC in the late 90s which led the agency to start work on rebanding its 800 MHz block.

After rebanding is done, the Public Safety will then have exclusive use of its 800 MHz block. Aside from that, ESMR systems will start having exclusive use of the 862-869 MHz block while public safety, business users and SMRs will start sharing the 854-862 MHz range. There are no licenses required in relocating to channels that are above 860 MHz.

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