AT&T Urges Single Round 2.5 GHz Auction
A single-round 2.5 GHz auction is “likely to be substantially more successful” than the standard simultaneous multiple round format, AT&T representatives told staff from the FCC Wireless Bureau and Office of Economics and Analytics. AT&T warned of T-Mobile’s dominance in…
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the band. “T-Mobile controls, through leases, the majority of incumbent 2.5 GHz licenses on a nationwide basis and has strong incentives to fill out that nationwide footprint with the overlay licenses” in the auction, said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 20-429. “The multiple rounds of an SMR auction would enable T-Mobile to discover which licenses have little or no competition and to win them at prices below its valuation, often at or near the reserve price.”