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TA clarifies rebanding process

A reconfiguration handbook for 800 MHz licensees released April 21 by the Transition Administrator team clarified many procedural points of the upcoming rebanding effort, but the 58-page document also left many compensation-related questions unanswered. As expected, the TA handbook confirmed that Nextel Communications — the wireless carrier paying the rebanding bill — is the primary contact for negotiations and that the rebanding process would be done in two phases, a planning and negotiating phase and the implementation phase. Licensees are advised in the handbook to let Nextel pay third-party vendors directly and to provide documentation to support any ...

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