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T-Mobile and MetroPCS Ask FCC to Clamp Down On Dish

May 21, 2012, 11:50 AM by Eric M. Zeman

In separate filings, both T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS have asked the Federal Communications Commission to force Dish Networks to give up 50% of its spectrum in order to gain approval for its proposed LTE broadband network. Dish has 40MHz of S-Band spectrum in the 2000-2020 MHz and 2180-2200 MHz bands. Dish wants to repurpose this spectrum for a terrestrial LTE-Advanced network. T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS contend that Dish should agree to give up 20MHz of the 40MHz block in order to avoid a "windfall" should the company eventually sell to AT&T or Verizon Wireless. They believe that the spectrum could be auctioned off to non-dominant players and still allow Dish to recoup the cost of purchasing the spectrum. The Rural Carrier Association added its own comments, suggesting that if the FCC grants the waiver for which Dish is requesting, it should be required to offer competitive roaming rates to smaller operators. The RCA also wants to prevent Dish from inking roaming agreements with AT&T and Verizon Wireless without FCC approval. Dish's proposal is similar to that of bankrupt LightSquared, but Dish's spectrum doesn't abut GPS signals.

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Vmac39

May 21, 2012, 2:11 PM

Getting Ugly

This whole race to LTE is causing companies to pull out all the stops, to insure what they consider equal ground. At least in MetroPCS does. T-Mobile may be just trying to maintain this lead in LTE that they claim to have. Faster this, largest that, cheapest this and more this. I tell you, I get pretty confused with all this hype these carriers put out there and if your not careful, you'll fall right into the hype, too.

They're all taking away unlimited data or putting extreme limits on the so called unlimited data. Far as I'm concerned, LTE is bringing nothing but higher data prices and shorter battery life. What's the point of having all this wonderful tech, if you're limited to the point you're afraid of how much you use or if it jacks...
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JBlaze74

Honestly.... no. With one carrier following another on tiered data this and shared data that, and we're going to raise rates just because we think we have a good reason to do it, the likelihood of ever seeing rates decrease as a result of competiion ...
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