Impaired Spectrum Blocks Still Helpful to Carriers, T-Mobile Says
The FCC should still sell spectrum blocks, even if they're compromised by interference, in the TV incentive auction, T-Mobile representatives said in a meeting with members of the FCC’s Incentive Auction Task Force. “Spectrum with impairments of up to 50…
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percent nonetheless retains considerable value and should be auctioned. Impairments are best avoided, of course,” T-Mobile said. “But where impairments cannot be avoided, impairments should be placed in the uplink blocks, where solutions are easier to implement, rather than the downlink band, where solutions are more costly and time consuming.” T-Mobile also reiterated its position that the FCC should hold the incentive auction as scheduled in early 2016 and increase the quantity and quality of the reserve spectrum sold in the auction. Reserve spectrum is set aside for competitors to Verizon and AT&T. “Specifically, the Commission should increase the reserve to 50 percent of the available spectrum” and sell the least impaired blocks as reserve spectrum, T-Mobile said. The ex parte filing on the meeting was posted in docket 14-14 Monday.