T-Mobile Pleased With Pai Actions on Puerto Rico Repacking
T-Mobile is pleased the FCC is allowing the early repacking of some Puerto Rican broadcasters, T-Mobile executives said in a meeting in San Juan last week with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who was on a trip there and to the…
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U.S. Virgin Islands (see 1803120056). The early transition of the TV stations there “serves the dual policy objectives of repurposing spectrum for wireless broadband use while ensuring continued vitality of the television broadcast industry,” the carrier filed in docket 17-344. T-Mobile has 50 MHz of 600 MHz spectrum in Puerto Rico “and the early repack of broadcasters there allows us to deploy this spectrum far sooner than would otherwise be possible, including for 5G service, as equipment is available.” The executives backed a more aggressive timetable for selling high-frequency licenses. “The public interest can be even better served by the Commission moving quickly to auction all of the millimeter wave bands allocated for terrestrial mobile use in the Spectrum Frontiers proceeding, including multiple (if not all) of those bands together in the initial millimeter wave auction. These include the 24 GHz, 28 GHz, 37 GHz, 39 GHz and 47 GHz bands.”