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Requiring AT&T to use Band 12, rather than Band 17,...

Requiring AT&T to use Band 12, rather than Band 17, to offer LTE services using its 700 MHz spectrum would be “an unprecedented intervention in the marketplace,” AT&T Vice President Joan Marsh said in a meeting with Courtney Reinhard, aide…

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to FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai. Such a mandate “would undermine the integrity and predictability of the wireless industry’s standards-setting process, retard broadband investment and deployment, threaten the reliability of existing LTE services, expose millions of consumers to additional interference risk, and yield none of the ‘interoperability’ benefits upon which the proposed regulatory mandate is falsely premised,” Marsh said, according to an ex parte filing (http://xrl.us/bnkza8).