Sprint Says 800 MHz Rebanding Complete in Most Regions
The 800 MHz rebanding is nearing completion, Sprint reassured the FCC in a report filed in docket 02-55. Twelve of the 55 National Public Safety Planning Advisory Committee (NPSPAC) regions remain unfinished, Sprint said. “Excluding the five Regions located within…
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in the U.S.-Mexican Border Area, only two individual licensees (one public safety and one non-public safety) remain to fully complete 800 MHz band reconfiguration in the seven non-border NPSPAC areas of the United States.” The rebanding has been underway since 2004, when the FCC approved its landmark 800 MHz rebanding order, aimed at addressing interference to public safety radios in the band by Nextel, which later combined with Sprint. "By any measure, the multi-year, multi-billion dollar 800 MHz band reconfiguration project is reaching its final stages," Sprint said.