Repacking Rules Key to Successful Incentive Auction, AT&T Says
There's broad industry agreement that the FCC should minimize the intentional placement of U.S. TV stations in the 600 MHz band as part of the TV incentive auction repacking, an AT&T official said in various meetings at the FCC. “As…
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the record confirms, repacking U.S.-based television stations into the 600 MHz band will significantly degrade the quality of the adjacent licenses for mobile wireless use, both within the same market and in geographically adjacent markets,” AT&T said in a filing in docket 14-252. Doing so would reduce the value of licenses sold to carriers in the forward part of the auction, AT&T said. The impairments also would “force the Commission to offer non-generic licenses under circumstances in which bidders cannot know during the forward auction which licenses they will ultimately receive, and that uncertainty will cause bidders to further reduce their bids,” the carrier said. The filing was signed by Joan Marsh, AT&T vice president-federal regulatory.