Sprint Corp. has reported further progress in the 800 megahertz band realignment, saying that the initiative “is reaching its final stages.” In a report filed with the FCC in WT docket 02-55, Sprint said that “800 MHz public safety and non-public safety licensees required to be retuned in a total of thirty-nine NPSPAC Regions and the U.S. Territories have fully completed 800 MHz band reconfiguration efforts.

Currently only 16 Regions of the 55 NPSPAC Regions remain incomplete.

Excluding the five Regions located within in the U.S. – Mexican Border Area and the State of Washington (Region 43) located in the U.S. – Canada Border Area, only four individual licensees remain to complete 800 MHz band reconfiguration in the non-border area United States. These recent accomplishments demonstrate that, by any measure, the multi-year, multibillion dollar 800 MHz band reconfiguration project is reaching its final stages.”