The FCC Public Safety Bureau came up with...
The FCC Public Safety Bureau came up with a solution for an 800 MHz dispute between Sprint and Mississippi State University over how MSU’s radios should be rebanded, said an order released Friday (http://bit.ly/13tkJ29). The case was referred to the…
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bureau for “de novo review, after remand, from Wave 3 Stage 2 mediation by the 800 MHz Transition Administrator,” said the order. “We find that MSU will receive comparable facilities if its existing 3-site scan radios are retuned to the new NPSPAC band,” said the Public Safety Bureau. Although MSU had opposed that solution in part because it said it would violate FCC rules, the bureau waived “conformity for emission mask H” for the radios because they don’t pose an “interference hazard.” Though both Sprint and MSU each accused the other of bad faith during the rebanding negotiations, the bureau rejected both accusations. The bureau also rejected several of MSU’s cost estimates for the rebanding operation, the order said. Although many of the costs are subject to change based on conditions associated with the rebanding, the bureau’s ruling means that Sprint could pay over $250,000 in costs for the rebanding.