T-Mobile Disputes Dish on 12 GHz
T-Mobile supports a thorough exam of the 12 GHz band and selling licenses in an auction “if the Commission determines, after a careful evaluation of the technical issues presented in the record, that the spectrum should be made available for…
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terrestrial mobile services,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 20-443. T-Mobile slammed what it says is Dish Network’s approach -- that the FCC “should instead simply gift those rights to existing incumbents.” Dish argues that in wireless communications service, the FCC allowed terrestrial use of that band absent an auction, T-Mobile said. In WCS, “incumbents were already permitted to provide terrestrial mobile services, and licensees acquired those rights at auction,” the filing said: “In this case, incumbent licensees would obtain entirely new rights to provide terrestrial mobile services.” A Dish spokesperson declined comment, except to point to an August filing.