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The FCC Public Safety Bureau will allow the...

The FCC Public Safety Bureau will allow the city of Harlingen, Texas, to revise its cost estimate for the reconfiguration of its 800 MHz public safety communications system, said a Monday order (http://bit.ly/1xyZTfw). The costs of the retooling are to…

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be paid by Sprint as part of the ongoing 800 MHz rebanding. The bureau said it would be “amply justified” in rejecting the request. “Considering, however, that Sprint is willing to accept a modified cost estimate, and because the upgrade proposal might possibly accelerate the rebanding of Harlingen’s system, we are granting the Request,” the bureau said. But it also issued a warning to other licensees that “they face an exceptionally heavy burden in advancing untimely upgrade requests.”