Sprint Nextel reported slow but steady progress on 800 MHz reband...
Sprint Nextel reported slow but steady progress on 800 MHz rebanding, in an update filed Wednesday at the FCC. In Phase I, Sprint has completed the retuning of all non-Sprint Nextel, non-Southern LINC Channel 1-120 incumbent licensees in 49…
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NPSPAC regions, adding Georgia in June, the company said. “More than 98 percent of the nearly 1200 Channel 1-120 licensees that must be retuned during Phase I of 800 MHz band reconfiguration have been retuned.” In Phase II, 371 non-border area public safety licensees have completed retuning to their new channel, a 40 percent completion rate, and more than 80 percent of non-border licensees have signed frequency reconfiguration agreements. Sprint also reported on its progress retuning licensees along the Canadian border. “In the short time that the public safety and business/industrial land transportation community has had the new 800 MHz band plans available, a significant amount of progress has occurred,” the carrier said. More than “300 … licensees in each of the border regions have received their replacement frequency proposals from the [Transition Administrator] and negotiations and planning efforts are well underway.” Some 63 planning frequency agreements have already been signed.