Rebanding NewsSprint Nextel: 265 NPSPAC licensees have finished 800 MHz retunesBy Donny Jackson Almost 30% of the non-border NPSPAC licensees have completed reconfiguring their 800 MHz networks as part of the massive rebanding effort... Martin places Sprint Nextel interleaved item on October agendaBy Donny Jackson Public-safety agencies nationwide will gain access to new spectrum in the 800 MHz band in 18 months, under proposed rules that the FCC will consider during its next open meeting scheduled for Oct. 15.... FCC looks for public safety to push rebanding to completionBy Donny Jackson Already more than one month beyond the scheduled completion date for 800 MHz rebanding, public-safety licensees operating in the band are expected to drive the monumental engineering project to substantial completion during the next year... D Block reauction may be pushed into 2009By Donny Jackson An additional layer of comments regarding rulemaking for the 700 MHz D Block will make it difficult for the FCC to auction the spectrum this year as proposed... Public safety responds to Sprint Nextel waiver requestBy Donny Jackson Three key public-safety organizations today filed a joint letter with the FCC indicating that they would agree with a portion of Sprint Nextel’s proposal to vacate its interleaved channels in the 800 MHz band in stages.... Sprint Nextel gets one rebanding waiver, seeks anotherBy Donny Jackson Wireless carrier Sprint Nextel this week received notice from the FCC that it has received an expected waiver from completing rebanding as originally scheduled next week and asked the agency to provide it relief from a deadline regarding other 800 MHz frequencies that a federal court recently upheld.... FCC approves rebanding waiversBy Donny Jackson As expected, the FCC yesterday granted more than 500 waivers to NPSPAC licensees seeking relief from the commission’s original June 26 deadline for the completion of 800 MHz rebanding.... Sprint Nextel seeks license update for rebandingBy Donny Jackson Sprint Nextel this week asked the FCC to update its spectrum licenses to complete channel swaps with NPSPAC licensees in several areas of the country as part of the 800 MHz rebanding process... Court rules against Sprint Nextel in rebanding caseBy Donny Jackson Sprint Nextel will have to vacate its interleaved spectrum in the 800 MHz band by June 26 as part of the rebanding process, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in a decision that is expected to cost the nation’s third-largest carrier at least $1 billion... Sprint Nextel makes its rebanding case in appeals courtBy Donny Jackson Sprint Nextel argued yesterday before a federal appeals court that an FCC rebanding order approved last fall that requires the carrier to vacate its 800 MHz interleaved spectrum this June unilaterally changed the terms of the commission’s rebanding “contract” with the carrier... Sprint Nextel: 800 MHz rebanding more costly than expectedDonny Jackson Sprint Nextel’s costs associated with 800 MHz rebanding almost certainly will exceed the $2.8 billion figure the carrier is required to pay for reconfiguration and that the amount could increase considerably if it fails in its case against the FCC, the carrier stated in an annual SEC filing released on Friday.... Rebanding completions top the 100 NPSPAC licensee markBy Donny Jackson ORLANDO--More than 100 public-safety licensees have finished the 800 MHz rebanding process and almost half of the non-border NPSPAC licensees have finalized deals with Sprint Nextel, a Transition Administrator official said during a panel at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Winter Summit... Sprint settles rebanding cost disputeBy Glenn Bischoff Sprint Nextel recently settled a dispute with the city of Boston over whether the use of inventory-control software that the city had purchased from MCM Technology constituted a recoverable expense related to the reconfiguration of the city’s 800 MHz radio system... FCC rebanding order creates major headachesBy Glenn Bischoff ORLANDO--An FCC order issued in September designed to accelerate the reconfiguration of 800 MHz airwaves, a project that is well behind schedule, not only is causing headaches for all involved but is having exactly the opposite effect, according to panelists speaking today at the IWCE-MRT Wireless Summit... Poarch: Financial benefits of national public-safety network could be enormousBy Glenn Bischoff ORLANDO--While most in the public-safety community are focused on the exciting applications that will be available to first responders in the field once the 700 MHz high-speed network is deployed several years from now, there might be another benefit that officials will find just as exciting: far less expensive radios in the future. So said Derek Poarch, chief of the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, speaking at today’s IWCE-MRT Summit... |
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