T-Mobile Asks FCC to Reject Strictures Sought by PR Regulator
T-Mobile asked the FCC to allow it to use stage 2 mobile support through a program providing emergency relief to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to pay for the deployment of distributed antenna systems, but without the requirements…
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sought by the Telecommunications Bureau of Puerto Rico (see 2205020057). “Adding additional requirements as suggested by the Bureau at this late stage could unnecessarily delay deployment,” said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 18-143: “Time is of the essence as T-Mobile enters its final year of Stage 2 funding, and adding more oversight likely would delay and ultimately might prevent T-Mobile from timely completing deployments before Stage 2 funding ends.” The rules for the fund don’t contemplate bureau review, and there's no basis to add new burdensome obligations in response to a petition for declaratory ruling clarifying the scope of the rules, T-Mobile said.