Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Re: FCC's Powell: Courts may 'frown' on making Nextel pay for 800 MHz rebanding

From: Marcelrf <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:11:39 -0500

What is even more amazing is that the FCC & Nextel has gone down this
road before with Kennard and lost. Contiguous spectrum 
allows for deployment of true cellular networks. Nortel, Ericsson and
other 800 mhz cellular equipment providers require wider 
bandwidths than the 25Khz currently allotted in the SMR band. If Nextel
was awarded contiguous 800mhz spectrum they could sell it 
to one of the other CMRS carriers at a great profit. DUH!!!

--- In [email-masked], "Rik Rasmussen"
<hrasmussen@n...> wrote:
> If Michael K. Powell does not understand that contiguous spectrum is worth
> FAR FAR more than fragmented spectrum the President should remove him ASAP.
> 
> I find it hard to believe that Powell is that stupid.
> 
> 
> > FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell says any FCC effort to
> > force Nextel Communications, Inc., to pay the relocation
> > costs of public safety and private wireless licensees as
> > part of a realignment of the 800 megahertz band could
> > face the wrath of a court.  He also indicated that he
> > backed Nextel's contention that such a realignment
> > wouldn't increase the value of its 800 MHz band spectrum.
> 
> 
> Rik Rasmussen
> Two Way Radio Directory
> http://twowayradiodirectory.com

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