Nextel Agrees to Spectrum Move
Feb 7, 2005, 5:00 PM by (staff)
Nextel has accepted an FCC plan to move some of its spectrum in order to resolve interference with public safety bands. The plan involves moving Nextel off parts of the 800 MHz band where they interfere with public safety channels, re-organizing that spectrum and allocating it to public safety entities and other companies as well in exchange for 10 MHz in the 1900 MHz band. The move will not occur all at once, but in a series of four "waves" of geographical regions to be completed in June 2008. The first wave will begin this year and be compromised of major metropolitan markets such as Washington D.C., New York City and San Francisco. When the changes take effect in a region, subscribers should not notice any changes or interruptions.
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Hmmmm.......
1st, they say customers will notice no difference in service, yet the spectrum is shifting from 800 to 1900. If my physics lessons serve me right I believe that means that signal will not travel as well and thus be worse. Especially in mountainous terrain...
2nd, they credit Nextel as building the largest garunteed all digital network in the US. I'm a little foggy on what they are getting at here, I was under the impression that Cingular now has the largest network, but before that Verizon did. Are we playing with words here? Or are they speaking of the Radio capabilities of Nextel?
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I find this amusing...
HeroPsychoDreamer said:They got 10mhz of pristine 1.9mhz spectrum for a song and a dance. Believe me...they were well compensat...
They say Nextel agreed to move spectrums like the FCC gave them some sort of choice 🤣
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