T-Mobile Says It's Meeting Many Regulatory Requirements of Sprint Buy
T-Mobile told the FCC it has made “significant progress” on meeting its nationwide 5G network deployment milestones. It's a regulatory requirement of T-Mobile's acquisition of Sprint that the milestones are within six years of the deal's closing date. T-Mobile completed…
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the buy four years ago (see 2004010069). “Since the third anniversary of the merger closing, T-Mobile has continued to deploy 5G service over its low-band and mid-band spectrum to the benefit of consumers across the country, resulting in extensive and nearly nationwide 5G coverage of the vast majority of Americans,” a filing Friday said (docket 22-211). T-Mobile reported an increase in its low-band 5G coverage area by approximately 0.6% since the last report and said it’s within 0.8% of meeting the 6-year milestone requirement of 99% of POPs nationwide. In addition, the carrier said its mid-band 5G coverage is at 94.1% of U.S. POPs, already besting the milestone requirement of 88%. T-Mobile reported it has met requirements for 5G sites nationwide and low-band/mid-band 5G spectrum averaged over all sites. But the data on both of these milestones was redacted from the report. The provider said it has also met all its rural 5G network deployment milestones and is well on the way to satisfying requirements for in-home broadband service. In a second filing, T-Mobile also requested keeping the redacted data from public disclosure. "The identified information is extremely sensitive, proprietary information about how T-Mobile is deploying its 5G network -- its most important competitive asset -- including how it is prioritizing deployment of its network infrastructure and bands of spectrum, the extent of its network coverage, the performance of its network, as well as how T-Mobile is deploying and marketing its In-Home Broadband Service," T-Mobile said.