800 MHz Rebanding Progressing Along Border With Mexico
The 800 MHz rebanding is starting to see progress along the border with Mexico, the last area to be reconfigured and the “primary focus” of current retuning efforts, the 800 MHz Transition Administration (TA) said in its quarterly progress report…
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to the FCC. The rebanding has been underway since 2004. As of March 31, 121 frequency reconfiguration agreements (FRAs) were submitted to the TA out of the 127 FRAs anticipated for Mexican border licensees, the TA said. As of March 31, “five licensees that had submitted cost estimates were negotiating their FRAs with Sprint,” the TA said. “In addition, Mexican border licensees and Sprint had entered into 38 Letter Agreements, which are short-form agreements that have been used in lieu of FRAs for certain reconfigurations with no costs or low costs.” In other areas, rebanding is nearly complete and there was relatively little activity, the TA said. For example, for Canadian border Stage 2 licensees retuned, reflashed or replaced about 250 radios in the first quarter, bringing the total retuned to 215,250 as of March 31.