The multiyear 800 MHz band reconfiguration...
The multiyear 800 MHz band reconfiguration “is nearing completion” and the FCC could simplify the process for all players by finding that Sprint has effectively met a requirement of the FCC’s landmark 800 MHz rebanding order and won’t owe the…
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government a windfall payment, Sprint said in a filing at the FCC. The carrier reported on meetings with various agency officials. The landmark 2004 rebanding order required Nextel to pay out the full value of the 10 MHz national spectrum license it got as part of the order through rebanding costs or else pay the balance to the government. Nextel subsequently merged with Sprint. “The participants discussed the current process for reviewing Sprint’s external expenditures to credit them against the anti-windfall payment contingency,” Sprint said. “Sprint noted that the current process has effectively become an unnecessary and unwarranted audit of the records of each state or local government public safety communications operator (or law enforcement agency) after it has completed the Commission-required retuning of its public safety communications system and is operating on its prescribed replacement channels.” The filing was posted by the FCC Monday in docket 02-55.