Verizon Wireless & NEATT Wireless ink spectrum swap agreement in Nine Arkansas Counties (USA)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Verizon Wireless announced today that it has signed an agreement with NEATT Wireless, LLC, to exchange spectrum in nine counties in Northeast Arkansas.
The spectrum, in the 1.9 GHz frequency range called “PCS,” covers the counties of Clay, Craighead, Greene, Independence, Jackson, Lawrence, Poinsett, Randolph, and Sharp. These counties cover a population of approximately 270,000 people. In the transaction, Verizon Wireless will exchange some of its swaths of PCS spectrum in these counties in return for some PCS spectrum from NEATT Wireless. This transaction gives both companies the ability to better utilize their spectrum holdings in these counties to meet future demand and does not impact current customers. (more…)