NextWave Disputes T-Mobile Stance on Use of 2.5 GHz Band
NextWave Spectrum fired back at T-Mobile in its fight over whether the carrier is exploiting an “exception” in the commission’s 2.5 GHz rules, allowing higher power levels at the border of a license when there's no licensee providing service in…
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the adjacent market (see 2505130029). “Instead of promoting deployment, expansion, and competition in the 2.5 GHz band, the Exception is being used by T-Mobile, holder of 92% of the 2.5 GHz spectrum nationwide, to unlawfully serve customers in its neighbors’ [service areas], using its neighbors’ spectrum without consent, enriching itself at their expense, and destroying competitive services in neighboring markets,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 25-133. By unlawfully using neighbors' spectrum, T-Mobile “is not only unjustly enriching itself, it also is preventing other licensees/lessees from fully and robustly building out wireless service.”