FCC Wireless Bureau asked for comments on Cingular Wireless reque...
FCC Wireless Bureau asked for comments on Cingular Wireless request for waiver of spectrum cap, seeking exclusion of cap for up to 1.5 MHz of 900 MHz specialized mobile radio spectrum. Spectrum at issue is held by its subsidiary…
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Cingular Interactive. Comments are due April 3, replies April 13. Cingular argued that spectrum it wanted excluded from cap was well below recognized amount of spectrum needed to compete in commercial mobile radio services (CMRS) market and was used only in conjunction with separate national mobile data market that couldn’t be used for broadband services. Cingular said spectrum was used to compete against narrowband competitors that weren’t covered by CMRS cap of 45 MHz in markets, except for rural areas where it was 55 MHz. Cingular told FCC that waiver would permit it in nonrural markets in which it already had 25 MHz of cellular spectrum to obtain 2nd 10 MHz broadband PCS license without topping spectrum cap.