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The Consumer Federation of America supports arguments the...

The Consumer Federation of America supports arguments the Department of Justice made in an April letter on spectrum aggregation and competition (CD April 15 p7), the group said in a filing at the FCC. “A careful examination of the dispute…

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reveals that the DOJ analysis rests on well-established fundamentals of the wireless market that the DOJ has consistently articulated and promoted throughout the entire history of U.S. wireless broadband service,” CFA said (http://bit.ly/ZIqnO0). “Access to spectrum is a critical (bottleneck) input for wireless service and different frequency bands have different propagation characteristics that significantly affect the economic costs of provisioning wireless networks and therefore the competitive structure of the sector.” CFA said the FCC should give industry critics of the letter little weight.