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Who uses the PCS band? The existing service providers that offered service in urban areas purchased PCS licenses to cover the urban areas where they needed increased capacity because the PCS band is 60Mhz wide in each direction and could accommodate a greater number channels and a greater number of subscribers than the Cellular Band band which is only 25 Mhz wide and contains fewer channels. At the same time as the FCC offered PCS licences to the existing cellular providers, they also invited new participants to the "spectrum auctions". This new group of companies that purchased PCS licenses and deployed PCS networks included Sprint, T-Mobile and numerous others that had wanted to enter the cellular business but could not because there was no spectrum available until the PCS Band became available. |
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