FCC Bureau Won't Give County More Time for 800 MHz Rebanding
The FCC Public Safety Bureau refused to give Miami-Dade County, Florida, more time to complete the 800 MHz rebanding of its public safety radios. The county asked the FCC to the extend the June 26, 2008, deadline to return equipment…
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to Sprint and remove pre-banding channels from about half its 15,000 subscriber units, the bureau said. The retuning there has been otherwise complete since 2014, the bureau said. Sprint “speculates” Miami-Dade wants an extension because it doesn’t want to compensate the carrier for the value of 1,799 radios the company paid Harris to provide to the county, the bureau said. “According to Sprint, Miami-Dade neglected to return the surplus radios to Harris on schedule, and Harris consequently declined to accept the radios for return or to refund their cost to Sprint.” The bureau said in docket 02-55 it need not address such claims. “Miami-Dade has fallen short of justifying its waiver request as required,” the bureau ruled. “It has neither exhibited the diligence that the Commission requires before a waiver request can be granted nor justified the extent of the delay it requests.” The order requires "Miami-Dade and Sprint to fulfil all of their remaining rebanding obligations" within 90 days. The county didn't comment.