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T-Mobile fired back at AT&T, in a letter...

T-Mobile fired back at AT&T, in a letter to the FCC, disputing arguments its onetime merger partner made in an April Department of Justice filing on the need for the FCC to limit who can bid in an incentive auction…

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of broadcast TV spectrum (CD April 26 p6). “No party, not even AT&T, asserts that there should be no limits on spectrum aggregation, either generally or in the incentive auction in particular; the only dispute is about the means by which the Commission should engage in that process,” T-Mobile said. “AT&T would prefer a spectrum screen that is applied post-auction and that lumps all spectrum together, no matter what band it is in. By contrast, the Department endorses a spectrum cap that is applied pre-auction and that recognizes the unique value of below 1 GHz spectrum and the highly concentrated holdings of spectrum in that frequency range.”