T-Mobile Defends Proposal for C-Band Incentive Auction
T-Mobile officials held meetings at the FCC to lobby for their proposal for a C-band incentive auction and against the proposal by the C-Band Alliance. T-Mobile officials met aides to Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioners Brendan Carr and Geoffrey Starks,…
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said a filing Monday in docket 18-122. “The 180 megahertz of spectrum that would be made available under the C-Band Alliance proposal in this proceeding is insufficient because, among other reasons, it would be unable to support the mid-band spectrum requirements of multiple providers,” T-Mobile said: “The private process by which the C-Band Alliance would select licensees of the 3.7-4.2 GHz band spectrum is contrary to the Communications Act and the public interest.” The alliance has been at the FCC in recent days to defend its plan, which also garnered satellite criticism Monday (see 1903110059).