Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Consensus Parties plan threatened to worsen the spectrum shortages

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 04:13:11 -0400

July 2, 2003
Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary
Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
Re: WT Docket 02-55

Dear Ms. Dortch:

By teleconference today, Sue Levine and Ken Norton of the City of San Diego and Chris Hinshaw, Tim Thomas and Richard Whittlesey of San Diego County met with Jim Schlichting, Alan Scrime, Bob Bromery and other OET staff members.  The undersigned was on the call as counsel to the City and County.
The City and County representatives described discussions over the past several months with APCO and Nextel about the so-called Consensus Parties? plan in the referenced rulemaking, and, more recently, with Motorola and the 800 MHz Users Coalition about their respective contributions to the docket.
The San Diego participants reiterated the chief technical points from their Comments of February 10, 2003, and responded to questions from the OET staff.  In particular, the City and County noted that the Consensus Parties plan threatened to worsen the spectrum shortages and other special problems on the Mexican border.  They expressed the hope that APCO and Nextel would respond to specific questions posed earlier by the San Diego public safety entities.
The City and County also warned against making any particular public safety system signal level the condition for future interference mitigation.  They said that while their own systems were relatively robust in this regard, even these systems -- covering extremes of topography -- could not avoid areas of relatively low signal levels.  They strongly affirmed the view expressed at pages 9-10 of their February 2003 comments -- that interference to public safety systems must be mitigated without regard to the systems? signal levels in the area of interference.
Please direct any questions to the undersigned.

Sincerely,
James R. Hobson

cc:	Jim Schlichting, OET;
	Sue Levine, City of San Diego;
	Chris Hinshaw, San Diego County

http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6514283614

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