The proposed transfers of AWS licenses from SpectrumCo, Cox and...
The proposed transfers of AWS licenses from SpectrumCo, Cox and Leap to Verizon Wireless and between T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless “are strongly in the public interest and prove that the secondary market can serve as a means for the industry…
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to redistribute spectrum in accordance with the marketplace’s needs,” Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam said during a meeting last week with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and other commission officials. McAdam also stressed the importance of spectrum sharing. “In addition to ensuring that spectrum in private hands can be put to its best use, Mr. McAdam stressed the need for the FCC and the Administration to free up government spectrum that could be better used for commercial mobile services,” Verizon said in an ex parte filing (http://xrl.us/bndr37). The filing said McAdam “stated that industry and government should work together to explore options for commercial companies and government entities to share spectrum. He stated that Verizon Wireless is working with CTIA and other companies to develop trials on spectrum sharing with government entities and reiterated that Verizon Wireless is prepared to commit our personnel and $5 million to work with the federal government to develop workable methods of sharing spectrum."