PK, Digital Progress Institute Urge FCC to Grant 2.5 GHz Licenses
The FCC can help promote 5G deployment by issuing to T-Mobile the 7,156 spectrum licenses it bought last year in the FCC’s 2.5 GHz auction, said Public Knowledge Government Affairs Director Greg Guice and Digital Progress Institute President Joel Thayer…
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Wednesday in a Broadband Breakfast opinion piece. FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has taken a firm stand the FCC can't legally issue the licenses since the March expiration of the agency’s auction authority (see 2307070042). “That’s a strange conclusion because the 2.5 gigahertz auction occurred before its authority expired -- and T-Mobile has already paid for the licenses,” Guice and Thayer said: “And the FCC issued spectrum licenses for six decades without auction authority.”