Sprint Lobbies Starks Aide on Changes to 2.5 GHz Band
Sprint laid out its stance on the 2.5 GHz band and educational broadband service (EBS), in a Tuesday meeting with an aide to FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks. A year ago, commissioners approved 4-0 an NPRM seeking proposals for changes to…
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the band, including a possible incentive auction (see 1805100053). There's "strong support across both the EBS community and commercial interests for ‘rationalization’ of existing EBS licensees to county-based licenses and ... that critical step in licensing 2.5 GHz spectrum would both close operational gaps and lead to more rural deployment,” Sprint said in docket 18-120 filing Thursday. There's "continued criticality of its leased 2.5 GHz spectrum and its long-standing mutually beneficial partnership with the EBS community which has enhanced Sprint's current 4G LTE deployment and will enable its 5G mobile deployment in nine major markets in the first half of 2019.”