Editing Broadcast auxiliary service (section)

==2 GHz relocation==
In the [[United States]] between 2005 and 2010, the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) moved [[TV channel]]s in the 2 GHz TV BAS band at the request of [[Sprint Nextel]], so that it could use a portion which was adjacent to [[personal communications services|PCS]] frequencies it already uses.  The [[report and order]] resulting from this [[rulemaking]] specified that Sprint/Nextel must pay for every TV station using the band to buy and install new BAS equipment to work in the new band structure.

Previously, there had been seven [[analog TV]] channels, each 17 or 18 MHz wide, between 1990 and 2110 MHz.  The new allocation created seven [[digital TV]] channels, each 12 MHz wide, from 2025.5 to 2109.5 MHz.  (There was also a "narrowed in place" [[bandplan]] used as an interim measure, as the two bands overlap.)<br />
Begun in 2005, the relocation was 94% complete as of October 2008, and was expected to be fully complete in mid 2009.  After multiple extensions granted by the FCC, it was finally done in July 2010, with the completion of the [[Anchorage]], [[Alaska]] [[TV market]].  

The cleared band is now used for PCS, [[Advanced Wireless Services|AWS]], and [[mobile satellite service|MSS]] services, including [[mobile broadband]].