Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Ben G. Almond, Cingular's Vice President-Federal Regulatory Calls the "Consensus Plan"- "A Self-Serving Spectrum Grab by Nextel"

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:14:07 -0500

Ben G. Almond, Cingular's Vice President-Federal Regulatory Calls the
Consensus Plan-

<SNIP>The Nextel Consensus Plan (NCP):

The NCP is self-serving spectrum grab by Nextel:

800 MHz holdings:

The Commission must not be misled by Nextel’s “running averages” -
Nextel appears to overstate
its spectrum holdings.

Due to restrictions on 800 MHz channel use in border areas as well as
spectrum holdings by
other ESMR providers, particularly in the southeast, Nextel’s
calculations are suspect.
Running average of 18.5 MHZ is misleading as it is the median (using
Nextel’s own numbers)
not an average. The average using its numbers is 17.8 MHz.

http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6513397080