Sprint Nextel told the FCC that technical standards it adopts in...
Sprint Nextel told the FCC that technical standards it adopts in the Dish Network AWS-4 proceeding should be fair to future licensees of both the H block and AWS-4 spectrum. The standards also should provide incentives for licensees “to coordinate…
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in good faith as part of a community of adjacent spectrum licensees and service providers,” Sprint said in an ex parte filing about meeting with Wireless Bureau staff and staff of the Office of Engineering and Technology. The filing is in docket 12-70 (http://xrl.us/bnx5wk). Sprint said it likely wouldn’t bid on the H block “if it were restricted to small cell use or air-to-ground communications.” The wireless provider doesn’t expect the proposed SoftBank transaction “to materially alter Sprint’s stated interest in bidding in a broadband-viable H block auction,” it said. Dish Network is awaiting an FCC decision that could allow it to use wireless spectrum for a terrestrial network (CD March 21 p1).