T-Mobile’s recent arguments against Verizon Wireless’s buy of AWS licenses...
T-Mobile’s recent arguments against Verizon Wireless’s buy of AWS licenses from SpectrumCo and Cox “contradict statements it made only months ago during its own proposed transaction with AT&T and should be given no credence,” SpectrumCo and Verizon said in a…
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filing at the FCC. “T-Mobile’s advocacy in this proceeding cannot be reconciled with the positions it advanced in support of its own transaction.” While the AT&T/T-Mobile transaction was pending, “T-Mobile testified before Congress that ‘[t]he U.S. wireless marketplace is very competitive’ and that ‘plenty of other regional or large facility-based carriers such as Sprint and the regional ones’ produce ‘extensive competition in this market,'” SpectrumCo and Verizon said (http://xrl.us/bm5c37). “T-Mobile asserted that the merger would cause no competitive harm because ’the combined company will hold on average 134 MHz out of 424.5 MHz, which is still less than a third of the total’ included in the Commission’s spectrum screen,” the filing continues. “During the SpectrumCo/Verizon Wireless proceeding, T-Mobile now argues that Verizon Wireless’ aggregate spectrum position would somehow cause competitive harm, even though Verizon Wireless would hold 109 MHz of spectrum on a nationwide basis post-transaction, considerably less than the 134 MHz average spectrum depth AT&T/T-Mobile would have held.”