AT&T Senior Vice President Bob Quinn urged the...
AT&T Senior Vice President Bob Quinn urged the FCC in a meeting Thursday with FCC Chief of Staff Michele Ellison and Sarah Whitesell, an aide to acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn not to move forward on 700 MHz interoperability rules. “During…
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the meeting, we emphasized that a regulation forcing AT&T to offer its customers only LTE devices that incorporate Band 12 components that AT&T does not want, cannot use, and that would reduce the quality of AT&T’s LTE services, would harm consumers and competition and would have no public interest benefits,” said an ex parte filing on the meeting (http://bit.ly/11RqwQh). “The Commission should instead focus on eliminating the interference concerns that have made Band 12 deployments impractical in much of the country.” Quinn questioned the legality of a mandate, according to the filing: “Such a mandate would cause substantial consumer harms, because it would force AT&T to include unnecessary components in all of its devices that would cause reduced coverage, lower average throughput, reduced battery life, and form factor compromises that AT&T’s competitors would not face. Indeed, the mandate would necessitate a redesign of all of AT&T’s LTE devices, which would likely result in fewer overall choices for AT&T’s customers.”