T-Mobile Meets FCC Staff on UScellular Deal
T-Mobile representatives met with FCC staff to discuss the company’s proposed buy of wireless assets, including spectrum, from UScellular in a $4.3 billion deal announced a year ago (see 2405280047). New data submitted in response to FCC questions was stripped…
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from the filing, posted Tuesday in docket 24-286. “T-Mobile described that the spectrum efficiency for LTE using low-band spectrum differed from values provided during the FCC’s consideration of the T-Mobile/Sprint merger,” the filing said: “T-Mobile also explained that, since it would be adding UScellular’s spectrum to the T-Mobile network, it was appropriate to utilize the T-Mobile spectrum efficiency values for the combined network in its modeling.”