A Band 12 interoperability mandate would cause significant harm to...
A Band 12 interoperability mandate would cause significant harm to competition and consumers, despite what consulting firm V-Comm and others claim, AT&T representatives told the FCC Wireless Bureau during a meeting Monday. Such a mandate “would produce none of the…
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benefits alleged by its supporters,” Joseph Marx, AT&T assistant vice president-federal regulatory, said Tuesday in an FCC filing (http://xrl.us/bn2ozw). The perceived benefits of a Band 12 mandate are “illusory,” while the potential harms are “substantial,” AT&T said in a presentation at the meeting, also filed with the FCC (http://xrl.us/bn2o2n). V-Comm released a report in July on behalf of a group of 700 MHz A block licensees that called for the FCC to proceed with an interoperability mandate, arguing that band class distinctions are not necessary to protect some operations from interference (CD July 16 p10).