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Rebanding ‘Fast Track’ option might be repaved

Published Wednesday, November 15, 2006

CHARLOTTE—A representative of the Transition Administrator that is overseeing the reconfiguration of 800 MHz airwaves agreed yesterday to recommend that the TA revisit the Fast Track planning option that few licensees have been able to leverage thus far. Fast Track was designed to let a licensee submitting a planning-funding request forego negotiations with Sprint Nextel should their proposal seek no more than $55 per subscriber unit from the wireless carrier in planning funds. In such circumstances, Sprint Nextel would write a contract once the TA deems the planning-funding request is reasonable. The sticking points are the requirements that ...

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