# Improving Public Safety Communications in the 800 MHZ Band
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Final rule. · Published 2019-11-14 · Effective 2019-12-16 · 84 FR 61831
## Document
- **Document number:** 2019-24657
- **Category:** spectrum-allocation
- **Federal Register citation:** 84 FR 61831
- **CFR reference:** 47 CFR 90
- **Publication date:** 2019-11-14
- **Effective date:** 2019-12-16
- **FCC docket:** WT Docket No. 02-55
## Abstract

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) streamlines our rules and procedures to accelerate the successful conclusion of the Commission's 800 MHz band reconfiguration program, or rebanding. The 800 MHz rebanding initiative is a 14-year, $3.6 billion program, involving Sprint Corporation (Sprint) and 800 MHz licensees. At the conclusion of this initiative, public safety, critical infrastructure and other 800 MHz licensees will operate in a reconfigured 800 MHz band free of the interference that plagued first responders' mission-critical communications before the Commission instituted rebanding in the 800 MHz Report and Order.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/11/14/2019-24657/improving-public-safety-communications-in-the-800-mhz-band)
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