What was so wrong with the NexTel "White Paper" 800 MHz rebanding plan? The mess that that band was prior to rebanding created havoc for everybody operating on that chunk of RF spectrum. Sure NexTel doesn't exist anymore - thanks, I've always believed, in part to rebanding and the expenses they took on to pull it off; but, if the Commission is going to take any blame re: 800 MHz, I'd venture to say it would be for not foreseeing the need to slice up the band correctly in the first place - thus creating the need for rebanding it in 2001. Now...900 MHz...that's a different story. Wow, what a mess created in that band....
With that said gentlemen... the Federal Communications Commission can not take the blame for the UHF T-Band giveback scheme. Remember, it was our greedy Congress, through the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, that told the FCC to auction off the UHF T-band to raise revenue for the national government.
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