Dish Needs to Use Its Spectrum or Lose It, T-Mobile Tells Wireless Bureau
Calling spectrum "too precious a resource to be wasted on hoarders," T-Mobile said and it wants the FCC Wireless Bureau to make clear to Dish Network that its AWS-4, H Block and Lower 700 MHz Block spectrum holdings "must be…
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put to productive use or be relinquished." In a letter dated Thursday to bureau Chief Don Stockdale, T-Mobile said Dish plans to use a 200 kHz carrier with its narrowband IoT system would leave most such spectrum capacity unused. It said Dish efforts are a mere "'license saving' deployment scheme" that won't meet performance obligations, and its talk of a second deployment phase focusing on mobile broadband doesn't excuse falling short of performance requirements now. It said the narrowband IoT plan violates Dish commitments to provide broadband service with its spectrum. Saying Dish has "a track record of hoarding spectrum," T-Mobile said the FCC should signal that Dish will lose its licenses and not be able to re-acquire them later. Dish didn't comment Friday.