Sprint Nextel questioned the effect on backhaul and Wi-Fi of...
Sprint Nextel questioned the effect on backhaul and Wi-Fi of various commercial agreements between Verizon Wireless and cable operators, announced concurrent with Verizon’s agreement to buy AWS licenses from SpectrumCo and Cox. Sprint reported on a meeting with various FCC…
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officials (http://xrl.us/bm45ot). ILECs and the cable operators “control the only two wired ecosystems in most areas of the nation,” Sprint said. “As a result, they have natural incentives to be spirited competitors.” But the commercial agreements “could negatively affect these incentives, especially in the provision of backhaul services to wireless carriers, by eliminating the Cable Companies as future providers,” Sprint said. “The Sprint representatives also pointed out that Verizon and the Cable Companies could leverage their legacy control over the wired ecosystems to disadvantage Sprint and other wireless carriers through restrictions on access to wide-area Wi-Fi networks."