In a two page release the Commission detailed their plans for imposing steep fines to radio licensees that fail to comply with the January 1st narrowbanding mandate. The FCC says that "Enforcement Bureau is committed to aggressively enforcing the narrowbanding transition deadline and violators may be subject to enforcement action. Penalties for non-compliance may include license revocation, and/or monetary forfeitures of up to $16,000 for each such violation or each day of a continuing violation, and up to $112,500 for any single act or failure to act."
The narrowbanding mandate calls for licensees operating between 150 - 470 MHz to reduce their effective bandwidth down to 12.5 KHz by January 1st, 2013.
For more information about the this release or how to become compliant you can contact David Smith at FIT. dave@landmobile.com or 541-485-8441
