Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile Tussle over Spectrum Below 1 GHz

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T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless locked horns at the FCC over spectrum below 1 GHz and how ncritical it will be for mobile broadband. "Lower-frequency spectrum bands are not per se more n‘effective’ than higher-frequency bands and, in fact, higher-frequency bands offer advantages nin many capacity-driven deployments," Verizon Wireless said in a filing last month. The ncarrier said it’s T-Mobile’s fault that the smaller company didn’t buy spectrum in the recent 700 nMHz auction. "Nearly 100 bidders other than Verizon Wireless and AT&T acquired licenses in nthe 700 MHz auction, including one in every market." T-Mobile fired back in a letter this week, nwhich notes that Verizon’s purported goal is greater clarity. "Verizon Wireless seeks to nobfuscate T-Mobile’s argument that making more spectrum available in the lower bands would nbe especially effective in promoting competition in the wireless marketplace," T-Mobile nsaid. Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam has made it clear in various comments that 700 nMHz spectrum is key to the company’s 4G rollout, T-Mobile said.