T-Mobile Wary of Verizon Cable Deal Warns FCC of 'Excessive Consolidation' of Airwaves It's almost adorable how quickly T-Mobile reverted back to playing the pesky upstart after the failed AT&T deal. In a filing with the FCC, T-Mobile is warning the agency that Verizon's new spectrum and marketing deal with the cable industry would create an "excessive concentration of mobile service spectrum holdings that is contrary to the public interest." T-Mobile argues that Verizon already sits in a comfortable spectrum position with a lot of unused AWS spectrum, and the consolidation of AT&T and Verizon spectrum has limited options for smaller carriers to the higher frequency ranges "which are more difficult to deploy due to their propagation and building penetration characteristics." Like consumer advocates, T-Mobile also says they're worried the deal involves a gentlemen's agreement to limit competition between Verizon and cable.
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 openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | So the hypocrisy returns Boohoo T-Mo. I guess you'll actually need to build out your network and compete then. Hint: T-Mo can always open its purse strings and license additional spectrum too.
And to those that don't believe AT&T won regardless of a successful acquisition of T-Mobile or not (regardless of a few billion in cash and spectrum it lost), this is a prelude to a win by both T and VZ of the attempted T-Mobile acquisition...IMHO. | |
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join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | Re: So the hypocrisy returns I guess T-mobile thinks TV airwaves should be taken away to provide more spectrum than letting companies buy spectrum that is being unsed from others? Hey t-mobile guess who is going to buy up all that TV spectrum? HINT: It's not going to be T-mobile. | |
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join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | Re: So the hypocrisy returns However there is no hypocrisy when it comes to
"The New Jersey Division of the Rate Counsel claims that two Verizon Wireless deals to buy spectrum licenses from cable companies and related marketing agreements "could lead to collusion and higher prices," Bloomberg News reported Tuesday." | |
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BiggA
join:2005-11-23
EARTH Reviews:
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| Absurd They are the ones who wanted to do the right thing, and consolidate with AT&T. Consolidation means the spectrum will actually be used, unlike Sprint and T-Mobile that don't use most of their spectrum.
They are just whining because they don't have any low-band, and Sprint (SMR), AT&T and Verizon have a lot of it. They should just try a joint network with AT&T and see if they can do that instead of the merger. Would work better for everyone. | |
| | BiggA
join:2005-11-23
EARTH | Re: Absurd Also, their argument makes no sense, as the AWS spectrum doesn't help anyone with low-band, it just gives them more capacity on the high-band. | |
| | | | said by BiggA:Consolidation means the spectrum will actually be used, unlike Sprint and T-Mobile that don't use most of their spectrum.
Right...How much of their AWS spectrum has at&t and VZW actually used since they won it at auction in 2006? | |
| | | BiggA
join:2005-11-23
EARTH | Re: Absurd They are just starting to roll LTE out. It's not like they had LTE way back in 2006...
Sprint and T-Mo use very little of their spectrum, while AT&T and Verizon use a good chunk of it. | |
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