Connecticut City Must Reimburse Sprint for 800 MHz Equipment It Tossed
Stamford, Connecticut, must pay Sprint $956,259.64 after the city tossed out 800 MHz equipment it was supposed to return to Sprint, the FCC Public Safety Bureau ruled Thursday. The city had a frequency reconfiguration agreement (FRA) with Sprint under which…
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it was to receive $4.9 million as part of the 800 MHz rebanding. “A material provision of the FRA is that Stamford is required to send to Sprint the used equipment that is being replaced as part of the upgrading of Stamford’s system. This includes infrastructure equipment and subscriber radios," the bureau said in a letter to both parties. “Instead, Stamford contends that its rebanding contractor consigned the used infrastructure equipment to trash receptacles and donated the used subscriber radios to the City of Hartford, Connecticut.” Stamford officials didn't comment.