AT&T Wednesday offered the FCC advice as the commission moves forward on...
AT&T Wednesday offered the FCC advice as the commission moves forward on a rulemaking on a revised spectrum screen, in a blog post by Federal Regulatory Affairs Vice President Joan Marsh. “First, the Commission should update the screen to include…
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all of the available spectrum that is ’suitable’ for mobile wireless services,” Marsh wrote (http://xrl.us/bn3wy3). “Most prominently, the Commission should correct a current glaring omission by including in the screen the entire 194 MHz of [Broadband Radio Service] and [Educational Broadband Service] spectrum held almost entirely by Sprint/Clearwire, rather than the mere 55.5 MHz the Commission has included to date. That spectrum is in use today and there is no principled basis upon which it can continue to be excluded from the screen.” The FCC should also confirm that the safe harbor offered by the screen “is truly safe -- i.e., that the Commission will not entertain spectrum aggregation-related challenges to any proposed spectrum acquisition that does not exceed the safe harbor level,” Marsh said. “Third, the Commission should make clear that its case-by-case analysis of proposals to exceed the safe harbor level in any local market will remain tightly focused on whether the spectrum available to competitors and potential competitors remains sufficient to enable robust facilities-based competition to continue."