I agree the exparte of Oct 13th, and the news story, was not taken as a surprise by myself. My point was focused on the expected date of the announcement of the T-Sprint merger (soon) contrasted with T-Mobile showing their hand again in the Fibertower proceeding.
Current events seem more important than what suited a T-Mobile position of support months or years ago, nor if Sprint didn't care enough one way or another to express itself.
T-Mobile is coming off as greedy and self-interested now - for those reasons, against what they were in favor of before. Not on Principal, but easily noticed by actions promoting that T-Mobile/Sprint should gain an upper hand on spectrum for 5G. They are probably hoping AT&T and also Verizon will not be able to get to market before T-Mobile/Sprint who are running behind. And that probably should include Softbank just standing in the shadows as a player.
Bottom line, there is a lot of potentially corrupt appearing politics behind all of this, including unknowns as to why Fibertower did not get an FCC extension of licenses in 2012-13 whenever. Fibertower has made very good cases for themselves and the spectrum rights, but not without fault for attempting to abandon investors.
The United States regulatory system, not just the FCC, continues to evolve more and more into a nightmare for this country. At this rate it is only a matter of time until the U.S. becomes a sordid second rank nation.
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