The FCC Public Safety Bureau again extended the deadline for...
The FCC Public Safety Bureau again extended the deadline for calculating how much Sprint Nextel might have to pay the federal government beyond the rebanding costs it has paid as part of the 800 MHz rebanding. When the FCC approved…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
the landmark 800 MHz rebanding order in July 2004, it set the value of the 10 MHz national license that Nextel was to receive for spectrum it was giving up at $4.8 billion. The commission set the value of spectrum that Nextel had agreed to contribute at $2 billion. That left $2.8 billion in costs for Nextel to cover, to be largely offset by its rebanding expenses. The 2004 order required Sprint to complete 800 MHz rebanding in non-border areas by June 2008, and provided that that the true-up payment would be due six months later. But rebanding has taken years longer than projected in the order. The 800 MHz Transition Administrator (TA) “has indicated that, despite additional progress in rebanding since the last true-up extension, Sprint has still not incurred sufficient rebanding expenditures to warrant moving forward with the true-up at this time,” the bureau said (http://xrl.us/bn73k5). “We agree with the TA’s analysis."