SAL Spectrum Strikes Out on 700 MHz Waiver Request
The FCC Wireless Bureau won’t give SAL Spectrum extra time to build out a lower 700 MHz B Block license it controls in Texas. The order is in contrast to the extra time the FCC afforded T-Mobile in December to…
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build out 700 MHz licenses covering parts of Montana and Wyoming (see 1612210038). “While the six counties comprising SAL’s License area may be rural, the area is relatively small (approximately 7,785 square miles), generally flat, and its weather temperate,” the bureau said. “It is thus dissimilar in key factual respects from the rugged Montana and Wyoming license areas that T-Mobile acquired … which are vast (approximately 136,325 square miles), mountainous, and subject to extreme weather," and noted four providers already serve much of SAL’s License area: "The combination of these factors underscores that buildout is not as difficult for SAL’s License area given, for example, its size, the climate, and the long period of time that SAL has had to build.”