T-Mobile Offers FCC Revised C-Band Auction Plan
T-Mobile offered the FCC a revised proposal for an incentive auction in the C band. The plan “includes a mechanism through which satellite earth station registrants can participate in the auction,” T-Mobile said in a filing posted Tuesday in docket…
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18-122. “Including earth station registrants will provide competition in the reverse auction and the opportunity for those entities to directly obtain auction proceeds, leading to a more efficient reallocation of spectrum.” Under the proposal, the FCC would conduct a forward auction among potential licensees for all 500 MHz of C-band spectrum in each market. The purchase price in each market would be offered to satellite operator and earth station registrant incumbents, T-Mobile said. T-Mobile “continues their spiteful attack on Broadcasters and TV Programmers who would be evicted from C-band distribution,” emailed Preston Padden, C-Band Alliance head-advocacy and government relations. “Their updated ‘Disincentive Auction’ proposal changes nothing, except to exacerbate its infeasibility. Once again, T-Mo is trying to distract everyone from their true purpose: delaying C-Band wireless deployments to ensure that, for as long as possible, New T-MO enjoys a monopoly on deploying 5G mid-band spectrum.”