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Nextel and FCC Swap Bandwidth

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the clearing-the-air dept.

evilninja writes "Techweb is reporting on the sale of 10MHz worth of bandwidth to Nextel by the FCC. One term of the agreement will solve a problem that has been frustrating the FCC for some time. Nextel will return some of their bandwidth to the public domain, since it has been interfering with local emergency channels in some areas."

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  1. Public domain? by hugesmile · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Nextel will return some of their bandwidth to the public domain

  2. hehe public domain by XMichael · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Yes, they've returned it to the extremely regulated, overly monitors, beaucratic to the max, over enforced, over regulated, over monitors public domain.

    Sweet!

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  3. Dumb Question by thesupermikey · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This may be a dumb question; does this mean the Nextel cell phones will have to be reprogrammed to work with the new frequency?

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