Competitive wireless carriers led by Sprint, T-Mobile, Dish...
Competitive wireless carriers led by Sprint, T-Mobile, Dish Network and C Spire sent new FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler a letter Thursday stressing the importance of spectrum aggregation limits during the upcoming incentive TV auction. “None of us fears competition,” the…
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companies said. “Consumers benefit from the give-and-take of the competitive market. But to ensure those benefits keep flowing, it is vitally important that the two dominant wireless incumbents not be allowed to lock competitive carriers out of acquiring low-band spectrum in the upcoming 600 MHz auction. That result would disserve the public interest by fundamentally undermining the wireless industry competition that has served our nation so well.” AT&T and Verizon already control almost 80 percent of sub-1 GHz spectrum, the letter said. “They have economic incentives to acquire the remaining low-band spectrum in the 600 MHz band to stop our companies -- their competitors -- from offering truly sustainable, competitive wireless broadband service across America.”