Verizon proposed an alternative licensing model for the incentive...
Verizon proposed an alternative licensing model for the incentive TV auction, as an alternative to Partial Economic Areas (PEAs), as proposed by groups representing smaller carriers (CD March 13 p6). “Any new license areas should reflect updated geographic and population…
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data, rather than the Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) included in the current Cellular Market Area (CMA) boundaries used by the Commission,” Verizon said (http://bit.ly/1fb6DEK). Verizon said there are problems with the PEA proposal. “First, the PEAs do not reflect current MSAs; more than 80 MSAs have been split into two or more PEAs,” Verizon said. “Second, there are no discernable objective criteria underlying the construction of some of the PEAs. Third, some of the PEAs subdivide current MSAs in unusual ways and are unnecessarily small.” Verizon said it continues to support selling the spectrum in Economic Area-sized licenses “rather than smaller license sizes because it is more efficient, will allow the spectrum to be put to use more quickly to benefit customers, and generally will produce more revenues at auction to cover the cost of clearing spectrum and fund the public safety network,” meaning FirstNet.