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Sprint Nextel, ABC Owned TV Stations Group Reach Agreement on 1.9 GHz Relocation

Heather Forsgren Weaver writes on RCR Wireless News:

Sprint Nextel Corp. and ABC Owned TV Stations Group said late Thursday that they have come to an agreement on templates for frequency relocation agreements and a group relocation agreement that allows Sprint Nextel to begin moving the ABC stations off of the 1.9 GHz band it received as part of the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to solve public-safety interference in the 800 MHz band.

As part of that plan the FCC gave Sprint Nextel 10 megahertz of spectrum in the 1.9 GHz band to compensate it for spectrum Sprint Nextel was relinquishing in the 700 MHz and 800 MHz bands. But, before Sprint Nextel could use the 1.9 GHz band spectrum, it had to pay to move more than 1,000 broadcast auxiliary service licensees to different spectrum.

posted by Fergie @ 4/21/2006 11:23:00 AM