Nextel Adds Funds to Reduce Interference
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Nextel Communications Inc. offered to pay an additional $362 million to clear some local-TV operations from airwaves the company wants as part of a plan to cut interference between police radios and mobile phones.
The amount is in addition to $850 million Nextel has offered to pay to reprogram radios for police and other users that would switch frequencies to a different part of the radio spectrum.
The Reston, Va.-based cellular carrier had said it would pay $150 million to move the TV operations.
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