Verizon representatives said the FCC should include all...
Verizon representatives said the FCC should include all relevant spectrum in its screen as it examines SoftBank’s proposed buy of Sprint Nextel and Sprint’s proposal to buy the remainder of Clearwire, in a meeting with Louis Peraertz, aide to Commissioner…
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Mignon Clyburn. “Consistent with Verizon’s previous filings, we explained that the record in these proceedings demonstrates that the Broadband Radio Service and Educational Broadband Service spectrum easily meets the Commission’s standard for inclusion in the mobile services spectrum screen: not only is it both suitable and available for those services (the test for inclusion), it is in fact in use,” Verizon said in an ex parte filing on the meeting (http://bit.ly/ZRxJw3). “It is the Commission’s policy to assess whether spectrum at issue in a transaction is suitable and available for mobile services and thus should be included in the screen as part of its review of that transaction. We urged the Commission to follow this long-standing practice and add the EBS and remaining BRS spectrum to the screen in its review of the SoftBank-Sprint-Clearwire transfer applications."