The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security and Wireless Telecommunications bureaus have announced the completion in nine NPSPAC regions of 800 megahertz band reconfiguration. As a result, the post-banding channel plan is now in effect in regions 12 (Idaho), 16 (Kansas), 17 (Kentucky), 24 (Missouri), 25 (Montana), 30 (Eastern upstate New York), 44 (West Virginia), 55 (Western upstate New York), and 64 (American Samoa). Meanwhile, the 800 MHz band transition administrator said in a quarterly report dated Dec. 29 that physical retuning was complete for 99.8% of non-border State 1 licensees and 96.5% of non-border Stage 2 licensees as of Sept. 30, 2014. The percentages were 100% for Stage 1 licensees on the Canadian border and 89.7% for Stage 2 licensees on that border. On the Mexican border, the percentages were 5.7% and 4.1%, respectively.

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