The FCC should reject petitions of reconsideration filed...
The FCC should reject petitions of reconsideration filed by T-Mobile and Sprint (CD Aug 13 p1) asking the agency to change key parts of its May 15 spectrum holdings order, which restricted the ability of AT&T and Verizon Wireless to…
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buy licenses in the TV incentive auction, said Gregory Vogt, visiting fellow at the Free State Foundation, Tuesday in a blog post. Increasing the amount of spectrum set aside for competitive carriers, as proposed by T-Mobile, is “anti-competitive” and could mean lower auction receipts, Vogt wrote (http://bit.ly/1tdB1Ij). Sprint is also wrong in its recommendations that the FCC change how spectrum is treated under its screen, he said: “Although unrelated in a direct sense to the spectrum auction, the request does represent another attempt by competitors to skew competitive analysis in their favor."