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- What latest approved standards or hardware/software solutions will enable the integration of iDEN and CDMA networks? Describe how the specific standards support the integration of both networks and facilitate supporting all current mobile wireless services, including Direct Connect, switched voice and packet data applications, provided by each company?
- Provide, using available estimates for the values of key inputs, a merger simulation, or similar analysis or set of analyses, that have been undertaken to support quantitatively the claim that the merger would not enable the merged entity to unilaterally increase mobile telephony prices.
- Since Nextel’s current network is in the 800 and 900 MHz bands, while Sprint uses the 1.9 GHz spectrum where more cell sites are generally needed because of propagation characteristics of this higher frequency band, elaborate on how the merged entity would plan to improve overall network coverage while collocating 80 percent of its planned CDMA sites onto existing Nextel cell sites.
- How would the merger affect the merged entity’s ability to comply with the requirement that 95 percent of its wireless service subscribers have location-capable handsets by Dec. 31, 2005?
- The Sprint-Nextel public interest statement claims the merger would not affect Sprint’s and Nextel’s compliance activities regarding enhanced 911 and CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act) obligations and may, in fact, further their efforts. Provide information to substantiate that claim.
- Explain how the asserted synergies resulting from the proposed merger would likely affect national security and homeland defense.
