AT&T, Verizon Most Spectrum-Constrained Carriers, Entner Says
AT&T and Verizon are more spectrum-constrained major carriers, per subscriber, than Sprint and T-Mobile, Recon Analytics analyst Roger Entner said in a report Thursday. Verizon has 1.02 hertz per connection and AT&T 1.18 Hz/c, Entner wrote. T-Mobile has 1.37 Hz/c…
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and Sprint 3.64 Hz/c. “T-Mobile, as it correctly boasts in its advertising, has more capacity per subscriber than Verizon and AT&T, with capacity per subscriber serving as a proxy for amount of spectrum the company has per subscriber,” he said. “T-Mobile has 34 percent more spectrum per subscriber than Verizon, and 16 percent more than AT&T. By comparison, Sprint has 2.6x to 3.6x times more than Verizon, AT&T or T-Mobile.” The data explains why Sprint and T-Mobile have sat out various FCC auctions, he said. “Neither company faced an immediate need for more capacity and could not make a business case for spending money to buy spectrum at the time various auctions were being held.”