The Land Mobile Communications Council has urged the FCC to address multiple instances of interference from newly authorized digital TV stations to private land mobile radio (PLMR) operations, including in the T-band. "This interference has rendered affected PLMR facilities entirely unusable in certain markets, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars of lost revenue as customers of commercial systems are forced to search for alternative communication options and incurred expenses as licensees have sought remedial action by the broadcasters and/or acquired other spectrum to which their operations could be moved," the LMCC said in an Aug. 28 filing. "The interference with what had been reliable communications endangers the safety of employees, disrupts operations at affected facilities, and poses a major threat to public safety in certain instances. The urgency of the problems demand FCC action to enforce those regulations and policies as promptly as possible and to avoid the creation of similar problems in the future." The LMCC said that "[i]t is bringing this issue to the attention of the FCC both because the problem is wide-spread among a number of licensee members of the LMCC organizations and because requests for action from individual licensees, for the most part, have not resolved the interference in a timely fashion, or in some cases, at all.
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