T-Mobile Counters Verizon Claims on Reserve Spectrum Trigger
T-Mobile fired back at a filing by Verizon asking the FCC to ignore new data on revisions to the reserve spectrum trigger for the TV incentive auction (see 1507280049). The data had been filed by T-Mobile and Sprint and was…
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largely redacted. “Verizon was neither able to produce outside counsel to review the information as part of standard procedure, nor able to make employees available for review who weren't working on the incentive auction,” a T-Mobile spokesman said. “Their comments are self-serving at best.” T-Mobile and Sprint made a filing at the FCC Wednesday saying they had offered Verizon a chance to examine the documents. "Despite having a market capitalization of more than $186 billion and approximately 177,000 employees, Verizon apparently could not find external counsel, a consultant or a single internal staff member to review the Confidential Information," the carriers said. “More long letters from T-Mobile can’t obscure the fact that it continues to press the FCC to change the auction orders to enable it to get more spectrum free from competitive bidding and at even more discounted prices," a Verizon spokesman said in response. "T-Mobile filed pages of detailed predictions as to what it thinks will happen in the upcoming auction, used those predictions to argue for preferential rules, then refused to provide those same predictions on the record. T-Mobile’s attempt to inject allegedly ‘confidential’ data into the record at the 11th hour risks creating even further issues for the FCC as it attempts to close this proceeding.”