MetroPCS has a “unique and particularly compelling case for a...
MetroPCS has a “unique and particularly compelling case for a waiver” of the interim construction obligations for the 700 MHz A-block license the company bought covering Boston and other nearby cities in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, executives…
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said in a meeting with FCC staff. “MetroPCS outlined for the participants the substantial extent to which the Market is impacted by the 60-mile exclusion zone that must be afforded to Providence-based Channel 51 broadcaster, WJAR,” MetroPCS said in a filing on the meeting (http://xrl.us/bn5pa5). MetroPCS said the WJAR exclusion zone covers about 30 percent of the geography in the market, plus about 80 percent of the market’s population. MetroPCS said the exclusion of the most densely populated area of the market “presents unique challenges to MetroPCS’ business model, which is generally premised on first serving the dense, urban core in a market, and later expanding outward as its customer base in the market grows."