United States and Mexico Sign Border Spectrum Accords

On July 27th at the seventh meeting of the U.S.-Mexico High Level Consultative Commission (HLCC) on Telecommunications in Mexico City, senior level telecommunications officials of the two governments signed protocols to significantly reduce the potential of life-threatening cross-border interference in critical radio networks used by federal first responders, federal law enforcement, military security networks, federal emergency management and other federal radio communication networks in the U.S. border area. [media note]

From left to right: Jorge Arredondo Martinez, Chairman, Federal Telecommunications Commission; Jorge Alvarez Hoth, Under Secretary of Communications, Ministry of Communications and Transportation of Mexico;  Ambassador David A. Gross, United States Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, Department of State;  Kevin J. Martin Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; and John M.R. Kneuer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, and Deputy NTIA Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration.