T-Mobile/Sprint Meet FCC Staff on Network; Free Conferencing Launches Complaint
T-Mobile and Sprint executives met FCC staff reviewing their proposed deal on the network model the companies offered in response to Wireless Bureau questions. Mark McDiarmid, T-Mobile senior vice president-radio network engineering and development, led the meeting, said a filing…
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posted Monday in docket 18-197. “Applicants showed how the network model is utilized to determine if there may be network congestion for the LTE and 5G networks for standalone T-Mobile, standalone Sprint, and New T-Mobile,” it said. Free Conferencing met staff to complain about T-Mobile business practices. “Free Conference provided FCC staff with information concerning T- Mobile’s deceptive and ongoing call blocking scheme, referred to as the One-Cent Policy,” the company said Friday. “T-Mobile designed the policy solely to reduce its own customers’ calls to Free Conferencing and others that tend to have longer duration calls.” T-Mobile didn't comment.