Michigan 800 MHz Rebanding Project

Determine time required to develop these individual site plans.  In the planning phase.

Identify character of technician pool for use in project including skill sets, time periods available, and peak personnel demands for the projects. 

10/13/08 In process of development by Motorola.

Ensure re-banding process can be used with all Public Safety radios, regardless of brand or model number

3.6.07  No longer an issue.  All radios will either be rebanded or replaced.

Subscriber sites, their inventories, site descriptions and  characteristics, including criticality of their duties, will have to be identified

3.5.07  No longer an issue.  This will be determined by the Planning Inventory activities.

Explore the need for user agreements that will enable MPSCS to readily perform template updates in the future

10/13/08  Not an issue

Analyze processes both for their effectiveness and the extent that they create and avoid public safety risks

Identify alternatives to be reviewed as solutions to maintaining the integrity of the encryption protocols.

Kzoo City license has three freq with 1-120 channels. TA has Al Eichenberg as Pt of Contact. Nextel supposed to be negotiating with Kzoo to move to NPSC freq.  Kzoo has still not recv'd rebanding notice for voluntary negotiation.

10/19  These licenses are not being used. Therefore will not have to be migrated/retuned.  11.14 Al Eichenberg met with Kzoo.  Agreement reached with Nextel  and us.  They will keep all three channels, Nextel will assign a frequency for one, the other two will be held off until needed.  See minutes of 11.14 and Kzoo file.  1/8 Kzoo approached by Nextel to assign freq now.  Al recmnd against, until PFA recieived - Kzoo agreed

Waiting for resolution of treaty concerns for overlap of coverage band 70 miles adjacent to Canada.  Issue to be resolved by US State Dept & Canada.

11.16  Appears still not to be any nearer resolution.  However, there will be a meeting of the states in this region to start discussing the issue.  12/7 This regions; users are meeting in Ohio to develop a common approach and policies to deliver to TA for use in the treaty negotiations.  All will attend. 3.5.07 MPSCS Submitted a proposal to the TA via Bill Carter on 2.26.07 to break the PFA payment schedule into three phases: Pay us now for the work that we've done to prepare the RFPF, pay for the inventories as they are performed that are unaffected by the lack of proposed frequencies, and pay the 3rd part once we recieve frequencies and can do the planning for their application.  No reponse to date,  RCC's attouney, Liz Sachs is to move this forward this week. 8.20.07  Recent events look like it will not be resilved until after Labor Day.  We are monitoring closely and have advised both The Governor's Federal lobbiest - Chris Priest- and Dingells office.

Motorola has not agreed that it is a sub of RCC rather than working directly with MPSCS as an extension of the existing contracts with Michigan.  Instant problem is who to address their "Planning Proposal" for the RFPF.  The contract says RCC, they would send to MPSCS. 

11.3 Ron agreed to send it to/thru  RCC (to have them include in their overall submittal to MPSCS).  But we need to pursue this.  The standard process (according to Ron) is to submit it to the licensee - Michigan in this case, but our contract says thru RCC! 11/14 Mike met with Arcuri and got this straightened out.  Higher ups at Motorola were not aware that Elwell was off the reservation. He was trying to force us to sign a seperate contract with Motorola - BAD!  This has been forcefully resolved. However, as a result their SOW will have to be rewitten to reflect that they are a sub of RCC - MPSCS will not do a separate contract with Motorola for this project. 11/27 Nickel reports that Motorola is contesting the"Flow Down" provisions in RCC contract as applying to Motorola.  There appears to be progress as they are now working out the Sub-contractor relationship.12/5 provided Jim with copies of the Flow Down paragraphs.  Quite extensive, but pretty much standard boilerplate thatyou would expect in any contract.  One section missing, 2.276.  DMB found that it had been deleted and will send a letter to modify RCC contract noting the deletion.  1/9 Motorola provide SOW late, so missed 12/15 RFPF target date, however submitted on 12/22.  Motorola and RCC now working with DMB to resolve Flow Down provisions.  MPSCS has removed itself from this as it is an issue for RCC, not MPSCS!  3.5.07  Very little progress on this - awaiting finalization of PFA with Sprint - this then should resolve itself hopefully.  Motorola did sign contract with RCC on April 26, 2007. 

Case filed with FCC on 12.21.2006 regarding the need to do "Second Touch" on radios that have been rebanded to eliminate the old frequency channels.

FCC originally ruled that 2nd touch was not necessary.  However, this case filed on behalf of many govt contends that it is.  Does not appear ot be a problem at this time.

Concern that if we move down straight 15 Mg, we need to consider potential Co-channel assignments with Canada for the cellular operator (subsiderary of Nextel).  We will be primary and therefore could push them off, but that’s probably not what we want to do.

This is the type of issue that we would include in a comment filing with FCC.  This is the heart of the issue and will naturally be addressed in the Proposed Frequency Report.

Jerry cannot merge DOC, some MSP and MDOT data bases because the Vendor names (the Key field that he sorts on) exceed 14 characters.  As a result, until this area is standardized , we are unable to provide a complete listing in detail for these state sites.

8.20.07  this was resolved by giving RCC/MCM paer and electronic files that they were able to merge into the MCM data base.

Request MOTO to provide the Final Template CPG for every radio after it’s rebanded.  Also requests the CPG Log.  These two items will be a quality control feature to ensure complete rebanding.

RCC notes in Infra. Rpt that 161 WJD Combiners located at 120 sites are no longer supported by the Mfr, and that there are no spares avail.  If these are not rebandable, they will have to be replaced.  Issue:  Is this a SOM cost or a Rebanding  Sprint Cost???

Note during FRA preparation.

Current software used by Motorola requires that new frequencies be hand entered by keyboarding.  With over 70 frquencies of 7 characters each this will require 490+ keystrokes just for the control channels on each radio.  Additional hundres will be required for the Call Groups and Mutual Aid channels.  This will introduce major quality control problems, in addition to extrenmely high labor costs and trime requirements in order to reband in excess of 45, 000 radios in any reasonabl e time period.

7/1/08 Motorola ande RCC working on develping a sollution to address these problems.