We all followed AT&T’s attempt to acquire T-Mobile last year. That should have been our wake-up call to a growing industry problem: spectrum shortage. Yet it wasn’t.
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson says regulators need to quickly figure out how to get more spectrum into the hands of wireless operators or the industry will run out. That is true, and it is a dire warning. AT&T Mobility needs more spectrum. Verizon Wireless needs more spectrum. So do Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. C Spire Wireless, U.S. Cellular, and all the smaller carriers need it as well.
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Steering Clear of the Perfect Spectrum Storm
Posted by: Jeff Kagan June 14, 2012 05:00 AMWe all followed AT&T’s attempt to acquire T-Mobile last year. That should have been our wake-up call to a growing industry problem: spectrum shortage. Yet it wasn’t.
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson says regulators need to quickly figure out how to get more spectrum into the hands of wireless operators or the industry will run out. That is true, and it is a dire warning. AT&T Mobility needs more spectrum. Verizon Wireless needs more spectrum. So do Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. C Spire Wireless, U.S. Cellular, and all the smaller carriers need it as well.