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Sprint Scores a Spectrum Windfall

By C. Douglas Jarrett on June 15, 2012
Posted in FCC, Telecom Policy
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Late last month, the FCC adopted a Report and Order granting SprintNextel flexibility to channelize its area-wide assignments in the ESMR portion of the 800 MHz band (817-824/862-869 MHz) to accommodate CDMA and LTE technologies. Even though the SprintNextel merger proved a terrible deal for Sprint shareholders, as noted recently by David Goldman, as…

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