FCC Orders Sprint to Pay R&M Negotiated Costs in 800 MHz Rebanding Dispute
The FCC Public Safety Bureau ordered Sprint, now part of T-Mobile, to pay R&M Repeater the full amount in a frequency reconfiguration agreement, settling a dispute in an 800 MHz rebanding case. Sprint wanted to withhold $76,254 from the final…
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payment “because it claims to have mistakenly paid that amount to another licensee, Christopher Salgot … whose system was rebanded by R&M,” said the Friday order in docket 02-55. “Despite being a party to numerous rebanding disputes, Sprint did not raise the alleged overpayment under the Salgot Agreement during negotiation of the R&M Agreement, though it was fully aware of the facts and could easily have done so,” the bureau said. The two were ordered to close the agreement within 30 days.