AT&T Advises Against Caps for High-Frequency Spectrum
The FCC, at most, should impose ownership thresholds rather than hard caps in rules for high-frequency spectrum, AT&T said in comments filed Tuesday. An FCC fact sheet said the order, to get a vote July 14, will impose limits on…
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high-frequency spectrum holdings -- imposing restrictions limiting carriers to buying 1250 MHz of spectrum in the bands in the initial auctions and a threshold of 1250 MHz for case-by-case review of secondary market transactions (see 1606240026). AT&T offered comments in a letter in docket 14-177. “While the industry needs clear guidance on what level of aggregation will be permissible in the bands -- particularly given the secondary market activity that has already been announced -- hard caps are a blunt instrument that deny the Commission the discretion to permit higher levels of aggregation where it finds no competitive harms,” AT&T said. “Caps also limit consideration of performance factors and other unique circumstances that may be relevant to the still-emerging 5G competitive landscape.”