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800 MHz Rebanding Is Almost Finished, Sprint Tells FCC

The 800 MHz rebanding is substantially complete nationwide, except for areas along the borders with Mexico and Canada, Sprint said in a report filed in docket 02-55 at the FCC. The rebanding has been underway since 2004. Only 13 of…

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the 55 National Public Safety Planning Advisory Committee (NPSPAC) regions are incomplete, Sprint said. “Excluding the five Regions located within in the U.S.-Mexican Border Area and the State of Washington (Region 43) located in the U.S.-Canada Border Area, only two individual licensees (one public safety and one non-public safety) remain to complete 800 MHz band reconfiguration in the seven non-border NPSPAC areas of the United States,” Sprint said. "These accomplishments demonstrate that, by any measure, the multi-year, multi-billion dollar 800 MHz band reconfiguration project is reaching its final stages."