NextWave and T-Mobile Trade Barbs in Spectrum Fight
NextWave Spectrum and T-Mobile are exchanging fire in a dispute over alleged interference with NextWave's use of the 2.5 GHz band in New York and New Jersey. NextWave asked the FCC earlier this month to “take swift and decisive action to compel T-Mobile’s compliance” with commission rules and “cease its flagrant and unlawful encroachment into NextWave’s exclusively leased" service areas in those states.
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T-Mobile denied wrongdoing in a filing posted Tuesday. “Because NextWave has not demonstrated that it has both constructed facilities and is providing service to customers in locations where T-Mobile allegedly exceeds the signal strength limit specified in the rules, there is no basis for NextWave’s continued complaints,” the carrier said: “Today, T-Mobile’s 2.5 GHz spectrum has enabled it to expand its Ultra Capacity 5G coverage for 60 million customers over nearly 300,000 square miles across the country.”