T-Mobile Questions Whether Verizon Is Reserve-Eligible in 12 More Markets
Verizon was potentially wrongly identified by the FCC as “reserve eligible” and able to buy incentive auction spectrum set aside for competitors in as many as 12 markets, T-Mobile said in a letter to the commission posted Tuesday in docket…
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12-268. The markets include Oklahoma City; Brownsville, Texas; Springfield, Massachusetts; and Bozeman, Montana. Major national carriers are excluded from bidding for the reserve spectrum if they have holdings of 45 MHz or more in a market, which is about one-third of the available low-band spectrum. Verizon is reserve-eligible in 112 of 416 U.S. markets, said a list published by the FCC (see 1510160065).