RWA Wants FCC to Probe T-Mobile MF-II Coverage Claims
The Rural Wireless Association said the FCC should investigate T-Mobile’s claims on its 4G LTE coverage as part of the one-time data collection for the Mobility Fund Phase II auction. T-Mobile last week denied it’s a target of an FCC…
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investigation into whether top wireless carriers submitted incorrect coverage maps (see 1812070048). “After RWA members conducted their own drive testing of T-Mobile’s coverage in their respective service areas, RWA determined that T-Mobile’s data submitted to the FCC regarding its claimed coverage of these areas at 5 Mbps or greater download speeds was not accurate or supported,” RWA said in docket 10-90. “Based on evidence available to RWA members it became evident that T- Mobile did not have the requisite backhaul. … It further appears that T-Mobile continued to build out areas that it counted as covered even though this build out occurred after T-Mobile’s January 4 … deadline for submitting actual coverage,” RWA said. T-Mobile didn’t comment.