FCC Tells Sprint To Clear Airwaves
May 2, 2008, 1:22 PM by Eric M. Zeman
A federal appeals court sided with the FCC and mandated that Sprint Nextel clear certain wireless channels by June 26. The decision upholds a request from the FCC made in September 2007 that requires Sprint to vacate specific channels that will be used by public safety agencies. In return for clearing the channels, Sprint was initially supposed to receive an equivalent set of channels in return. The public safety agencies in question are not all ready for the transition yet. This means those channels will be unavailable to Sprint for a certain time, and Sprint's network may not have enough spectrum. Sprint said if the deadline is enforced, its network will be crippled.
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Comments
Wow
So basically the government is telling sprint that their network is not important enough to the millions of subscribers.
this is sad.
what it is saying is that the network that is used for PUBLIC safety is being compromised my the amount of usage on the nextel network, thus for our own saftey, this is being done. that is what this whole issue is about when it started back in 04
It's just Nextel...
I am glad they are coming out with the QChat phones. Maybe they can finally phase out Nextel
I am glad they are coming out with the QChat phones. Maybe they can finally phase out Nextel
i think the government is saying the saftey of everyone is more important than that part of sprints network
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Thank god sprint is dying a fast and painful death.
Being forced out of airwaves by the fcc, class action lawsuits, losing (rather than gaining) millions of customers, being rated worst for service nationwide as well as in individual cities by consumer reports and jd powers, wimax partners backing out, cable (comcast, cox, time warner) all backing out of their agreements to offer a "quadruple play" for their customers by giving cell service, Qwest dropping Sprint (supposedly) and probably a lot more that I can't think of off the top of my head. Oh, and don't forget that new unlimited plan that they will surely lose a crap load of money on. LOL!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
And yes I'm sure that the big guys are trying to get Sprint to go ou...
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Being forced out of airwaves by the fcc, class action lawsuits, losing (rather than gaining) millions of customers, being rated worst for service nationwide as well as in individual cities by consumer reports and jd powers, wimax partners backing out, cable (comcast, cox, time warner) all backing out of their agreements to offer a "quadruple play" for their customers by giving cell service, Qwest dropping Sprint (supposedly) and probably a lot more that I can't think of off the top of my head. Oh, and don't forget that new unlimited plan that they will surely lose a crap load of money on. LOL!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
And yes I'm sure that the big guys are trying to get Sprint to go ou...
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Man before you laugh, how about thinking twice about your fellow human beings that's going to lose their job if what you're praying for happens. Rather than praying for the ship to sink it's better to pray that Sprint get itself together, improve its ...
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Wow. 🙄 You fail.
Laugh now and Sprint will laugh at you all the way to the bank when we prove you wrong.
Peace.
Laugh now and Sprint will laugh at you all the way to the bank when we prove you wrong.
Peace.
EddieT said:...
Thank god sprint is dying a fast and painful death.
Being forced out of airwaves by the fcc, class action lawsuits, losing (rather than gaining) millions of customers, being rated worst for service nationwide as wel
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👿 im an exsisting sprint customer that works 4 Gophone .... i know...... im wondering if anyone knows if sprint will wave the early termination fee 4 everything that's goin on......
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EddieT said:...
Thank god sprint is dying a fast and painful death.
Being forced out of airwaves by the fcc, class action lawsuits, losing (rather than gaining) millions of customers, being rated worst for service nationwide as wel
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i'm not a big fan of sprint
and i would love for sprint to go out of buisness so they will stop giving everyone else a bad name......wait they need to stick around. that is how i get praise because i'm better then most of sprint reps... 🤣
but all seriously, i do have a problem with the government inacting emminent domain on anything for "the public good".
but all seriously, i do have a problem with the government inacting emminent domain on anything for "the public good".
You're better than Sprint Employees please, What are you the CEO of dunkin donuts Baskin robbins. SIT DOWN LOSER!
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What is wrong with Sprint do they need to fire and hire another ceo. Everytime you turn around its something negative happening against them
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Affects Nextel only
You know the FCC is making Sprint get off 800 mhz which are the Nextel IDEN phones only. Sprint itself uses 1900mhz CDMA which is not affected at all. Funny, if the FCC makes them do this, a lot of fire fighters and public safety people will get knocked off too. For those of you that don't want the competition from Sprint, think twice. The fewer providers there are the higher rates will go. I sell 4 different carriers and I want them all to stay, maybe even some new ones as well. I sell a lot of T-Mobile but certain areas near me have better coverage with Sprint or at&t. Sure is silly to bash other businesses, with unemployment higher and the economy in decline I hope all these companies do well.
"You know the FCC is making Sprint get off 800 mhz which are the Nextel IDEN phones only. Sprint itself uses 1900mhz CDMA which is not affected at all. Funny, if the FCC makes them do this, a lot of fire fighters and public safety people will get knoc...
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Boo hoo!
Sprint Nextel's been dragging their ass since day one of this mess. The fact that they haven't vacated the channels forced the FCC's hand.
Too damn bad.
Too damn bad.
I am going to trade houses w/ you. No matter what, you have to be out of your house by June. But I am not going to promise to be out of my house by then. So, you will probably be homeless for a few months while I move.
"I" am Public Safety. And...
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"I" am Public Safety. And...
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Sprint OR Nextel
Does This mean that it has to clear their IDEN or CDMA network? If this happens, what will happen to all the Sprintel users
i dont think its all of either
its prob just a small portion of one or the other
its prob just a small portion of one or the other
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posted Nov 19, 2007, 2:05 PM by Eric Lin
updated Nov 19, 2007, 3:52 PM
Updated: Clarified that only parts of the network are involved.
The FCC is threatening to shut down major parts of Sprint's iDEN network as portions of the 800 MHz spectru...
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updated Nov 19, 2007, 3:52 PM
Updated: Clarified that only parts of the network are involved.
The FCC is threatening to shut down major parts of Sprint's iDEN network as portions of the 800 MHz spectru...
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does anyone else find this funny
if sprint was not having a hard enough time the MAN just came in and is making it harder on them
I can say that this much flack from all sides means that someone or some companies are tring there hardest to kill Sprint. Its funny too that the agencies that are to move off where sprint needs to be don't have a dead line. I know that Sprint was g...
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