http://www.911dispatch.com/2010/12/06/sprint-announces-plan-to-integrate-its-spectrum/ news and information about public safety communications since 1982 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:19:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://www.911dispatch.com/2010/12/06/sprint-announces-plan-to-integrate-its-spectrum/comment-page-1/#comment-4138 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:56:23 +0000 http://www.911dispatch.com/?p=4205#comment-4138 So Billions of dollars were, and still are, being waisted on Rebanding. Nextel should have been required to move to 700 MHz and let public safety keep their 800 MHz spectrum. Now public safety is split across both the 700 and 800 MHz bands, requiring the use of dual-band radios and interoperability solutions. Given this new revelation, rebanding should be put on immediate hold and re-evaluated.

]]> http://www.911dispatch.com/2010/12/06/sprint-announces-plan-to-integrate-its-spectrum/comment-page-1/#comment-4114 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:46:26 +0000 http://www.911dispatch.com/?p=4205#comment-4114 Back in the day a company I worked for (private patrol) had a bitchin 800mhz system that I spec’d. Nextel bought the license of our vendor causing us to replace the entire system at great expense. They did this all over the country–ruined the short use of 800mhz trunked for a lot of private businesses. Now, they’re turning the system off. Bah!

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