Mobile wireless providers have ignored the Wireless Bureau’s...
Mobile wireless providers have ignored the Wireless Bureau’s requests for data on the state of competition in their industry, said NAB in reply comments filed in 13-135 (http://bit.ly/13M4TPO). Instead of submitting information about how the mobile wireless industry uses its…
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current spectrum allocation, mobile wireless carriers “focus on how the commission can and should clear more spectrum for mobile broadband use,” said NAB. The FCC needs to know “how intensely” and where licensees use spectrum to effectively manage the resource, NAB said. “In particular, the large mobile wireless carriers focus almost exclusively on future spectrum allocations while providing scant evidence that they are utilizing their existing spectrum efficiently,” said NAB. The FCC “must conduct a thorough analysis of actual spectrum usage,” NAB said.