FCC Prepares Spectrum license for First Responder Network Authority

The Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau provides notice of its intent to grant to the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), as expeditiously as possible, a nationwide license for use of the existing public safety broadband spectrum and the 700 MHz D Block, i.e., the 758-769 and 788-799 MHz bands, as required by Section 6201(a) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012. The Bureau is prepared to grant FirstNet its license under a new call sign as soon as possible once the Bureau Report and Order becomes effective, i.e., thirty days after its publication in the Federal Register. Consistent with Section 6201(b) of the Act, the license will be granted for an initial term of ten years and will be eligible for renewal.