The FCC dismissed the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ March 2011 request...
The FCC dismissed the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ March 2011 request that the commission review a prior 800 MHz rebanding decision involving the state and Sprint Nextel. “The obligation that is at issue here is Sprint’s obligation to provide rebanding licensees…
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with comparable facilities at minimum necessary cost,” said an order released Thursday (http://xrl.us/bnqogf). “The Commonwealth conflates that obligation with the obligation of Sprint and other carriers to abate unacceptable interference to 800 MHz public safety systems if that interference actually occurs in order to argue that Sprint is obligated to narrowband the Commonwealth’s BDAs [bi-directional amplifiers].” The state took issue with how the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau reviewed the proceeding and had contended “the Bureau failed to follow the legal and policy directives of the Commission’s rebanding orders concerning interference,” according to the order. The FCC disagreed, saying no actual interference had occurred, and it was “correct in finding that narrowbanding of the Commonwealth’s BDAs was not compelled by the comparable facilities standard and that Section 90.674 of the rules did not obligate Sprint to narrowband the Commonwealth’s BDAs,” the order said.