T-Mobile Fires Back at AT&T on 2.5 GHz Licenses
The FCC should reject a petition by AT&T asking the regulator not to grant T-Mobile additional mid-band licenses in the 2.5 GHz band because of the carrier’s already dominant position in the band (see 2211100066), T-Mobile said in a Monday…
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opposition. T-Mobile noted AT&T didn’t even participate in the auction. “The Petition presents the remarkable spectacle of AT&T -- the beneficiary of structural competitive advantages for decades and the recent recipient of massive amounts of prime 3.45 GHz and C-band spectrum -- asserting that T-Mobile’s minor screen overages resulting from Auction 108 constitute a competitive harm,” T-Mobile said: “Strikingly, the Petition does not provide a single fact to support its claims that T-Mobile’s participation in the 2.5 GHz auction is part of an anticompetitive foreclosure strategy to raise AT&T’s costs.” What AT&T asks isn’t allowable under the law, T-Mobile said: “AT&T is effectively asking the Commission to rewrite the auction rules after the auction has concluded. However, the time for AT&T to seek reconsideration of the Auction 108 rules has long passed.” T-Mobile filed Monday in the FCC’s universal licensing system.