T-Mobile representatives met with some FCC officials designing an incentive...
T-Mobile representatives met with some FCC officials designing an incentive auction of broadcast TV spectrum to present the carrier’s alternative band plan. The FCC’s preferred band plan was roundly criticized by broadcasters, carriers and others, in comments filed at the…
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commission (CD Jan 28 p1). T-Mobile offered various iterations of its plan, depending on whether the FCC manages to clear as few as 10 channels (60 MHz) or as many as 20 (120 MHz). The base plan “provides 35 x 35 MHz of paired spectrum, seven paired 5 MHz blocks; limits wasteful guard bands,” while reducing the risk of interference for carriers and broadcasters, T-Mobile officials said, based on slides filed at the FCC (http://xrl.us/bod575). The plan also “offers meaningful opportunities for competition” and “accommodates supplemental downlink when more than 84 MHz (14 TV channels) is cleared.”