Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Fix 800 MHz Now

From: Marcelrf <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:06:05 -0500

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Side-by-Side
Comparison:

Balanced Approach vs.
Consensus Plan

Public Safety
Speaks Out

- Supporters of the
Balanced Approach

- Opposition to Nextel's
Consensus Plan

Frequently
Asked Questions

The Balanced
Approach

800 MHz Users
Coalition Plan

Speak Out:

Contact the Federal
Communications
Commission

What's at Stake

The public safety community and our nation's first responders rely on radio communications to help save lives. But, in some locations around the country, these crucial radios experience interference. Currently, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering two very different plans to eliminate radio interference, each affecting the public safety community in dramatically different ways. One of the plans, the Balanced Approach plan, provides public safety with a quick solution to interference at no cost to public safety.

The Balanced Approach

The Balanced Approach Plan provides a better solution to the problem of interference to public safety. It aims to eliminate all types of interference by targeting and fixing the specific locations where the interference occurs, at the expense of the interfering licensee. This plan also creates a pro-active method of testing new communications facilities to ensure that future developments do not create new problems. Under the rules proposed by the Balanced Approach Plan, interference will be resolved expeditiously, at no cost to public safety.

The "Consensus Plan"

The so-called "Consensus Plan" attempts to address interference through the initiation of an intricate, multi-year process. It aims to eliminate some interference by completely reshuffling public safety's airwave assignments, including relocating Public Safety radio assignments even where there is no interference at all. The plan will take at least 3 1/2 years to complete and concedes it would not eliminate every case of interference. Nextel, the author the Consensus Plan, has pledged $700 million to public safety, which they say includes the costs of reshuffling airwave assignments and replacing some public safety radios. But, this amount will likely fall far short of actual costs. For example, Motorola - the supplier of an overwhelming percentage of public safety radios - has suggested that 30% of all public safety radios may need to be replaced under the Consensus Plan. The Consensus Plan has only budgeted for replacing 1% of public safety radios - a potential $2 billion shortfall. Where will the extra money come from?

But that's just the opening question: What if the Consensus Plan exceeds Nextel's funding cap? Or if the reshuffling of radio assignments is left only partially complete? Or if Nextel fails to deliver on the promised funds? If the Consensus Plan doesn't unfold exactly as the authors say it will, and Motorola's filing suggests that it might not, the already under-funded public safety community will be left in the lurch. The Consensus Plan is too uncertain, too costly, too time consuming, and too complicated. When a car's headlight goes dark, it's time to replace the headlight. But, the Consensus Plan sees a broken headlight and wants to replace it with a different, more expensive car.

How You Can Help

Only the public and the public safety community can convince the FCC that a targeted, pro-active approach, such as the Balanced Approach Plan, can best solve today's and tomorrow's radio interference problems. Please take the time to use this Web site to learn more about this issue. Then, send a letter to the FCC. Join dozens of other public safety groups from around the nation in support the faster, more effective and more efficient Balanced Approach Plan to ending public safety radio interference.

"We are unhappy with APCO's and FCC's readiness to place the burden of this enormous change on the backs of already underfunded public safety agencies."

"The Balanced Approach... is much less disruptive and expensive than the solution proposed in the Consensus Plan."

— Charles C. Brotherton

Wireless Systems Manager

Maricopa County, Arizona

"This Consensus plan may jeopardize the effectiveness of the [public safety] agencies' communications system and may cause interruption in the use of these systems..."

"The Balanced Approach will provide greater protection to the public safety users at less cost and with less interruption..."

— Evelyn B. Robinson

Chief of Police

Monroe, Louisiana

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