The FCC granted Sprint a waiver of some...
The FCC granted Sprint a waiver of some of its interference rules, saying doing so will help spur LTE deployment in 56 Florida counties. But Sprint needs to keep at least an 80-mile co-channel between its activities in 821-824/866-869 MHz…
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and any nearby operations in the NPSPAC band operated by Miami-Dade County or Florida, the agency conditioned. Those two entities have yet to complete their 800 MHz band reconfiguration, but Sprint had argued it can “integrate the old NPSPAC band spectrum into its broadband network in much of Florida without posing any risk of interference,” the letter explained. Sprint must also warn Florida and Miami-Dade County at least 30 days before Sprint begins deployment, the FCC said. “As Sprint argues, it would be inequitable and unduly burdensome to prohibit its subscribers’ access to these valuable broadband wireless services until the final two public safety licensees complete their retuning from the old NPSPAC band, particularly where neither licensee objects to the planned deployment,” the FCC said in a Monday letter signed by Wireless Bureau Mobility Division Chief Roger Noel (http://fcc.us/1cMYN3q). “Such a constraint on broadband deployment and consumer choice is contrary to the public interest in light of measures (i.e. co-channel separation and advance notification) that will protect public safety entities from harmful interference.”