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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

445 Twelfth Street, S.W.

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20554 **DA 00-1172**

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**Released: May 26, 2000**

**WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUREAU SEEKS COMMENT ON INFORMAL REQUEST
OF UNITED TELECOM COUNCIL FOR CERTIFICATION TO PROVIDE FREQUENCY
COORDINATION FOR 800 MHz AND 900 MHz PRIVATE LAND MOBILE RADIO SERVICE
FREQUENCIES**

**Comment Due Date: June 26, 2000 Reply Comment Due Date: July 12,
2000**

On March 6, 2000, the United Telecom Council (UTC) filed an informal
request for frequency coordination certification in the 800 MHz and 900
MHz Private Land Mobile Radio Service (PLMR) Industrial/Land
Transportation and Business Category Frequencies. This *Public Notice*
seeks comment on UTC's request.

In 1986, the Commission certified frequency coordinators in each of the
PLMR services.[^1] At this time UTC was certified to coordinate certain
frequencies below 512 MHz. In the *Refarming Second Report and Order,*
the Commission determined that the Industrial/Business Pool[^2] below
512 MHz would be administered by multiple coordinators, thus ending
exclusive frequency coordination on certain frequencies and allowing
competition to be introduced into the coordination process in those
frequencies.[^3] The introduction of competition among coordinators was
intended to promote lower coordination costs and foster better service
to the public.[^4] We note, however, that to date, the Commission has
not made changes to the frequency coordination process as it pertains to
the 800 MHz and 900 MHz PLMR bands.[^5] UTC states that, because of
similarities between the PLMR systems below 512 MHz and in the 800 and
900 MHz Industrial/Land Transportation and Business channels, it would
be as qualified to represent licensees in the 800 MHz and 900 MHz
channels as it is to coordinate frequencies below 512 MHz. UTC believes
that allowing it to serve as frequency coordinator in these bands is in
the public interest and is consistent with the Commission's statements
in support of competition.

Interested parties may file comments on the request for informal
certification on or before June 26, 2000. Parties interested in
submitting reply comments must do so on or before July 12, 2000. All
comments should reference the subject request including the DA number on
this *Public Notice*, and should be filed with the Office of the
Secretary, Federal Communications Commission, 445 Twelfth Street, S.W.,
TW-325, Washington, D.C. 20054. A copy of each filing should be sent to
International Transcription Services, Inc. (ITS), 1231 20^th^ Street,
N.W., Washington, DC 20036, (202) 857-3800, and Catherine Fox, Federal
Communications Commission, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Public
Safety and Private Wireless Division, Policy and Rules Branch, 445
Twelfth Street, S.W., Room 3-C417, Washington, D.C. 20554.

The full text of the informal request for certification, comments and
reply comments will be available for inspection and duplication during
regular business hours in the Reference Information Center (RIC) of the
Consumer Information Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, 445
Twelfth Street, S.W., Room CY-A257, Washington, D.C. 20554. Copies also
may be obtained from ITS. For further information regarding the public
reference file for this request, contact Maria Ringold, Chief, Wireless
Branch, RIC, at (202) 418-0271.

Because of the policy implications and potential impact of this
proceeding on persons not parties to this request, we believe it would
be in the public interest to treat this matter as a permit-but-disclose
proceeding under the *ex parte* rules, *see* Sections 1.1200(a) and
1.1206 of the Commission's Rules, 47 C.F.R. § 1.1200(a), 1.1206, rather
than a restricted proceeding under Section 1.1208 of the Commission's
Rules, 47 C.F.R. § 1.1208. Therefore, any *ex parte* presentations that
are made with respect to the issues involved in the subject request,
subsequent to the release of this *Public Notice*, will be permissible
but must be disclosed in accordance with the requirements of Section
1.1206(b) of the Commission's Rules, 47 C.F.R. § 1.1206(b).

For further information, contact Catherine Fox of the Policy and Rules
Branch, Public Safety and Private Wireless Division, Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau, at (202) 418-0680 or via email to
cafox@fcc.gov.

By the Chief, Public Safety and Private Wireless Division, Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau.

-FCC-

[^1]: *See* Frequency Coordination in the Private Land Mobile Radio
    Services, *Report and Order*, PR Docket No. 83-737, 103 FCC 2d 1093
    (1986).

[^2]: The Industrial/Business Pool is comprised of frequencies that were
    previously allotted to any of the Industrial or Land Transportation
    Radio Services, including the Business Radio Service. *See* 47
    C.F.R. §§ 90.31-90.35.

[^3]: *See* Replacement of Part 90 by Part 88 to Revise the Private Land
    Mobile Radio Services and Modify the Policies Governing Them and
    Examination of Exclusivity and Frequency Assignments Policies of the
    Private Land Mobile Services, *Second Report and Order*, PR Docket
    92-235, 12 FCC Rcd 14307, 14328 ¶ 40 (1997).

[^4]: *Id.*

[^5]: Implementation of Section 309(j) and 337 of the Communications Act
    of 1934 as Amended, Promotion of Spectrum Efficient Technologies on
    Certain Part 90 Frequencies, Establishment of Public Service Radio
    Pool in the Private Mobile Frequencies Below 800 MHz, *Notice of
    Proposed Rule Making,* WT Docket No. 99-87, 14 FCC Rcd 5206, 5217 ¶
    15 (1999).