Dish Asks FCC to Move Ahead on Spectrum Screen
Dish Network “reiterated the urgent need” for the FCC to issue an NPRM updating its mobile spectrum holding policies, the company said in meetings with agency staff. “DISH described how the majority of spectrum is controlled by nationwide incumbents, leaving…
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new competitors and regional carriers constrained in their ability to provide wireless services,” a filing posted Tuesday in docket 23-319 said. “This excessive concentration hampers innovation, raises prices, raises costs for non-incumbent competitors, including DISH, and harms consumers,” Dish said. The FCC recently took comment on whether to reexamine aggregation limits (see 2311090051). In addition, Dish raised questions about T-Mobile’s proposed buy of Mint Mobile (see 2303150032). “While this transaction does not involve spectrum accumulation, T-Mobile’s network is an important input for virtually every [mobile virtual network operator] in the nation, including DISH, just as spectrum is for any facilities-based carrier,” Dish said: “The acquisition of another MVNO by T-Mobile increases T-Mobile’s incentive to discriminate against the remaining independent MVNOs.”