Export Compliance Daily is a Warren News publication.

T-Mobile Seeks Dish Auction Waiver

T-Mobile asked the FCC for waiver for its business agreement with Dish Network tied to its buy of Sprint (see 1907260071) for the upcoming high-band Auction 103. T-Mobile got similar waiver with Sprint for the last two high-band auctions and…

Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article

Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.

the December auction of the upper 37, 39 and 47 GHz bands (see 1908270033). “While nationwide carrier applicants may not enter agreements with one another regarding licenses subject to auction, the prohibition does not apply to pre-existing assignments of licenses and other agreements that do not relate to the licenses that are subject to auction,” T-Mobile said Tuesday in docket 19-59. It's asking out of “an abundance of caution.” T-Mobile and SoftBank, parent of Sprint, filed in docket 18-197 that a lawyer representing them spoke with FCC Chief of Staff Matthew Berry on “the Commission’s competition analysis, including the network improvements and efficiencies achievable through the merger and projected in the Applicants’ network and economic modeling.”