M2Z wrote FCC Commissioners Michael Copps, Jonathan Adelstein and...
M2Z wrote FCC Commissioners Michael Copps, Jonathan Adelstein and Robert McDowell, asking the commission to act on the AWS-3 spectrum allocation by Aug. 14. That’s the deadline for action the FCC endorsed last year when it rejected M2Z’s petition…
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seeking a license for the spectrum without an auction. “As is usually the case in a proceeding that involves the authorization of a new competitive service, there have been last minute calls for delay,” M2Z said. “In this case, the requests for delay are based on the supposed need for additional testing.” M2Z said it has already explained in “exhaustive detail” that such interference testing is “unnecessary because it would be duplicative of technical studies done both domestically and internationally and thus would add no new information to the expansive record developed by the Commission.” Meanwhile, T-Mobile said in reply comments on AWS-3 rules that preliminary tests it performed in a third-party facility show “there is a serious threat of harmful interference to AWS-1 licensees posed by the FCC’s proposed rules for the AWS-3 band… We are pleased to hear from multiple sources inside the FCC that they have decided to conduct joint testing. We welcome this decision.”