AT&T Defends Buy of 700 MHz Licenses From Bluegrass
AT&T’s buy of 700 MHz spectrum licenses from small carrier Bluegrass will significantly add to its ability to deploy 10 x 10 MHz LTE licenses in the areas covered, AT&T said in a response to a series of questions from…
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the FCC Wireless Bureau. The carriers earlier said AT&T proposed to buy 11 licenses covering parts of Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee (see 1510050065). A single 10 x 10 deployment is “more spectrally efficient” than a deployment of two noncontiguous 5 x 5 MHz blocks, AT&T said. Much of the information submitted by AT&T was redacted from the filing. AT&T elaborated on its overall LTE deployment strategy. “Where AT&T holds Lower 700 MHz B or C Block spectrum, AT&T will launch LTE service initially using that spectrum,” it said. “AT&T typically will launch LTE in a 5 x 5 MHz configuration where only a single 12 MHz block of Lower 700 MHz B or C Block spectrum is available, and will launch LTE in a 10 x 10 MHz configuration in areas where both the Lower 700 MHz B and C Blocks are available. Where Lower 700 MHz spectrum is available and has been deployed for LTE, AT&T will deploy AWS-1 spectrum to provide additional LTE capacity. AT&T also has deployed LTE on cellular and PCS spectrum in a few places.”