T-Cell amassed “unprecedented focus of spectrum,” AT&T complains

A bird sits on top of a T-Mobile sign outside a mobile phone store,

Enlarge / A pigeon rests on a T-Cell emblem exterior a cell phone retailer, operated by Deutsche Telekom AG, in Munich, Germany, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. (credit score: Getty Pictures | Bloomberg)

AT&T and Verizon are nervous about T-Cell’s huge spectrum holdings and have requested the Federal Communications Fee to impose limits on the service’s means to acquire extra spectrum licenses. Verizon kicked issues off in August when it petitioned the FCC to rethink its acceptance of a brand new lease that will give T-Cell one other 10MHz to 30MHz of spectrum within the 600MHz band in 204 counties. AT&T adopted that up on Friday with a submitting that helps lots of the factors made in Verizon’s petition.

T-Cell was as soon as the smallest of 4 nationwide carriers and complained that it did not have sufficient low-band spectrum to match AT&T and Verizon’s superior protection. However T-Cell surged previous Dash in recent times after which purchased the corporate, making T-Cell considered one of three large nationwide carriers together with AT&T and Verizon. T-Cell additionally bolstered its low-band spectrum holdings by dominating a 600MHz public sale in 2017.

“The mixture of Dash and T-Cell has resulted in an unprecedented focus of spectrum within the arms of 1 service,” AT&T wrote in its submitting to the FCC on Friday. “Actually, the mixed firm exceeds the Fee’s spectrum display, usually by a large margin, in Mobile Market Areas representing 82 p.c of the US inhabitants, together with all main markets.”

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