The FCC Public Safety Bureau dismissed Sprint’s opposition...

The FCC Public Safety Bureau dismissed Sprint’s opposition to a request by Maricopa County, Ariz., for more time to file a cost estimate to the 800 MHz Transition Administrator on its 800 MHz rebanding costs. The county filed its request for a time extension March 10 and oppositions were due 10 days later, but Sprint didn’t object until April 4, the bureau said in an order Thursday (http://bit.ly/1gcCLZb). Sprint said its opposition should be accepted because it provided the bureau “with relevant information that Maricopa did not provide in support of its Further Request for Extension,” the bureau said. “We do not find this argument persuasive. Sprint fails to explain why it could not have filed sooner, and its assertion that this represents a unique circumstance is insufficient to overcome ’the policy of the Commission that extensions of time shall not be routinely granted.'"