FCC Asks Questions About Verizon/Sprint Spectrum Swap
The FCC Wireless Bureau sent Sprint a letter Monday asking questions about its proposed exchange of PCS and AWS-1 licenses with Verizon. “The Applicants assert that the proposed spectrum exchanges would allow for holding larger blocks of contiguous spectrum, which…
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in turn should permit more robust operations,” the FCC Wireless Bureau said in a May notice. “In those markets where either Sprint or Verizon Wireless gains additional spectrum, the Applicants maintain that the proposed transaction would help meet the demands of their customers for broadband wireless services." "Provide a detailed description of how the Company would use the spectrum that it would acquire under the Proposed Transaction on a standalone basis and/or in conjunction with any other of the Company’s spectrum holdings, and how it would improve spectrum capacity and efficiency of operations,” said the letter to Sprint. The bureau asks for a response by June 20.