T-Mobile Notes Year Has Passed Since End of 2.5 GHz Auction
The FCC’s 2.5 GHz auction ended a year ago, but the agency has yet to award T-Mobile any of the more than 7,000 licenses it won, or allow access to the spectrum through a grant of special temporary authority, the…
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company said. The FCC declined to issue the licenses because of the March decision expiration of its auction authority (see 2307070042). “While we wait for Congress to act, Americans are losing out on enhanced 5G broadband and economic development opportunities,” Ulf Ewaldsson, T-Mobile president-technology, blogged Tuesday. “Our outstanding 2.5 GHz licenses would improve high speed internet service for millions of American households, in all 50 states and Puerto Rico,” he said: “In fact, 61 of the nation’s 109 operational Historically Black Colleges and Universities are in locations that would be immediately enhanced with improved 5G data speeds, mobile and home internet services were the FCC to issue T-Mobile’s licenses or grant access to the spectrum via STA.” Ewaldsson expressed hope Congress will act when it returns to Washington next week. “Restoring this authority not only provides a path forward for a future spectrum pipeline, but also ensures the Auction 108 licenses we purchased can be deployed for the benefit of consumers,” he said.