FCC Seeks Committee To Manage 4.9 GHz Public Safety Band
The incumbents keep their spectrum and are frozen in place, while the agreement that determines their protection and any future expansion is negotiated between the Band Manager and FirstNet — two parties that do not include them. The consultation is real but bounded by design, and the notice says so openly.
The incumbents keep their spectrum and are frozen in place, while the agreement that determines their protection and any future expansion is negotiated between the Band Manager and FirstNet — two parties that do not include them. The consultation is real but bounded by design, and the notice says so openly.
On September 28, 2026 the FCC's Public Safety and Wireless Bureaus released DA 26-1041, opening nominations until October 28 for a Band Manager Selection Committee that will recommend who holds a nationwide overlay licence over the 4.9 GHz public-safety band and negotiates a sharing agreement with FirstNet — a committee expressly barred from reconsidering the arrangement itself.
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https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-1041A1.pdf - source
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/section-90.1217 - source
https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/ - source
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/section-90.1207 - source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kWGdCGrmec - source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxvYXvKZ1dE
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