Sprint Nextel supports the near-term introduction of additional spectrum into...
Sprint Nextel supports the near-term introduction of additional spectrum into the wireless ecosystem, it said in an FCC filing in dockets including 12-70 and 10-142. The filing recounts a series of meetings between Sprint executives and Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and…
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Ajit Pai and FCC staffers (http://xrl.us/bnh7ap). Although Sprint supports Dish Network’s request for additional flexibility to introduce terrestrial mobile services in its mobile-satellite service spectrum, “Sprint opposes needlessly sacrificing the valuable H block spectrum to achieve this goal,” it said. Only the PCS H block is entirely cleared of incumbents, “paired as expansion spectrum with the core PCS band, and available for immediate wireless broadband use,” the carrier said. Concerning the H-block service-rules proceeding, Sprint explained that in the uplink band at 1915-1920 MHz, “full-power operations across the entire 5 MHz uplink could result in harmful intermodulation interference to PCS B block receivers that use the CDMA [code division multiple access] air interface."