Federal Communications Commission DA 10-1755
Before the
Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
In the Matter of
Implementing a Nationwide, Broadband, 
Interoperable Public Safety Network in the 700 
MHz Band
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PS Docket No. 06-229
ORDER
Adopted:  September 16, 2010  Released: September 16, 2010
By the Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau:
I. INTRODUCTION
1. By this Order and at the request of the San Francisco Bay Urban Area (Bay Area), the 
Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Bureau) tolls the 60-day deadline for the Bureau to act on 
the Bay Area’s 700 MHz broadband interoperability showing.1  
II. BACKGROUND
2. On May 12, 2010, the Commission granted, with conditions, twenty-one waiver petitions 
filed by public safety entities (Waiver Recipients) seeking early deployment of statewide or local public 
safety broadband networks in the 700 MHz public safety broadband spectrum (763-768 MHz and 793-
798 MHz).  The Commission found that the Waiver Recipients generally met the standard for waiver of 
the Commission’s rules and that the public interest warranted allowing early deployment, so long as the 
conditions imposed by that order were met.  
3. Among other conditions, the Commission allowed each Waiver Recipient submit an 
“interoperability showing” to the Bureau for approval if they wanted to proceed with network 
deployment before the FCC adopted its final technical rules.2 The Waiver Order provided the Bureau 
with 60 days within which to act on the submitted interoperability showings.3
4. On August 17, 2010, the Bureau tolled the deadline for its action on 14 of the 15 
interoperability showings submitted. 4 The Bureau found that while the Waiver Recipients had made 
  
1 See Requests for Waiver of Various Petitioners to Allow the Establishment of 700 MHz Interoperable Public 
Safety Wireless Broadband Networks, PS Docket 06-229, Order, 25 FCC Rcd 5145 (2010) (Waiver Order); Letter 
from Laura Phillips, Executive Director, Bay Area UASI, to James A. Barnett, Jr., Rear Admiral (Ret.), Chief, 
Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Sept. 10, 2010) (Bay Area Tolling Request).
2 Waiver Order at 5163-64 ¶¶ 55-58.  
3 Waiver Order at 5164, ¶57.  
4 In the Matter of Implementing a Nationwide, Broadband, Interoperable Public Safety Network in the 700 MHz 
Band, PS Docket No. 06-229, Order, DA 10-1540 (rel. Aug. 17, 2010) (Tolling Order).  
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significant progress, they had not yet demonstrated defined and certain technical solutions in their 
interoperability plans, such that ERIC and the Bureau did not have a basis for evaluating the viability and 
concreteness of each Waiver Recipient’s interoperability showing.5 The Bureau determined, however, to 
proceed with evaluating the interoperability showing submitted by the Bay Area.6
III. DISCUSSION
5. The Bay Area now seeks additional time to provide supplemental information.7 The Bay 
Area states that this is consistent with the treatment of the other Waiver Recipients, and that, once the 
Bay Area’s showing is supplemented, the Bureau should “continue to review and act expeditiously” on 
its showing.8 We find that the public interest would be served by allowing the Bay Area time to 
supplement its showing, which will also provide a more sufficient basis for ERIC and the Bureau to 
evaluate the Bay Area’s technical plans.  Accordingly, we grant the Bay Area’s request.   
V. ORDERING CLAUSES
6. ACCORDINGLY, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to sections 1, 4(i), 301, 303, 332, and 337 
of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. §§ 151, 154(i), 301, 303, 332, and 337, that 
the 60-day deadline for Bureau action on the interoperability showings specified herein IS TOLLED.    
7. This action is taken under delegated authority pursuant to Sections 0.191 and 0.392 of 
the Commission’s Rules, 47 C.F.R. §§ 0.191, 0.392, and the Waiver Order, 25 FCC Rcd 5145, 5155, ¶ 33 
(2010).
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
James Arden Barnett, Jr., Rear Admiral (Ret.)
Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
  
5 Id. at ¶ 7.  
6 Id.at ¶ 8.  
7 See Bay Area Tolling Request.
8 Id.