800 MHz TA reports costs nearing $30M.(News)

RCR Wireless News, February, 2006

Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER

The team designated to manage the 800 MHz band reconfiguration necessary to solve public-safety interference reported that it has billed nearly $30 million since it was chosen in the fall of 2004, but that fees and expenses for the fourth quarter of 2005 were $600,000 less than the estimate. But the 800 MHz Transition Administrator cannot say whether total costs will be less than the original estimates since Sprint Nextel Corp. has yet to file any expenses.

The Federal Communications Commission in 2004 said it wanted to reconfigure the 800 MHz band, changing it from slices of various types of licenses-public safety, enhanced specialized mobile radio and private wireless-to a band with three distinct sections:...

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