Dish, Designated Entities Should Pay More To Take Part in Incentive Auction, T-Mobile Says
Dish Network, Northstar Wireless and SNR Wireless should suffer "meaningful consequences" for gaming the AWS-3 auction or the auction process integrity "will continue to be undermined," T-Mobile said in an FCC petition for reconsideration posted Tuesday in docket 12-268. Dish,…
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Northstar and SNR also should be required to make a 50 percent higher upfront payment for participating in March's incentive auction and be labeled "former defaulters," T-Mobile said. If the agency's former defaulter rule doesn't apply, it should rethink its application procedures for the upcoming incentive auction, T-Mobile said. The Dish designated entities' actions in the AWS-3 auction "falsely drove up prices and forced other carriers to overpay for needed spectrum," T-Mobile said. It said the DEs not taking the licenses for which they were highest bidders once they were no longer eligible for designated entity discounts is evidence the three "have continued to game the Commission's post-auction licensing process." Dish, Northstar and SNR didn't comment. The filing is the latest by T-Mobile seeking further FCC penalties against Dish and the DEs (see 1511180024).