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Cellular holds Cellular, 700 MHz, PCS, and AWS licenses, while MetroPCS and Leap chiefly hold PCS
and AWS spectrum. Finally, as the charts below reveal, smaller providers also hold Cellular, 700 MHz,
SMR, PCS, AWS, and BRS licenses, primarily in the less populated parts of the United States.
118. Five providers together - Verizon Wireless, AT&T, T-Mobile, as well as Sprint and
Clearwire - hold close to 80 percent of all spectrum, measured on a MHz-POPs basis, that is potentially
usable for the provision of mobile wireless services.3 Table 18 shows megahertz holdings for each
provider, weighted by population. Finally, Chart 4 is a graph of providers' spectrum holdings by
frequency bend, measured on a'MHz-POPs basis.
Table 17
Percentage Spectrum Holdings, Measured on a MHz-POPs Basis
by Provider, by Frequency Band"
Cellular SMR AWS EBS
700Licensee PCS(1.9 BRS (2.5 Leases
Licensee MHz (850 (800/900 PS (1.9 (1.7/2.1 S (2. eses
MHz) MHz) GHz) GHz) GHz) (2.G
Verizo Wireless 42.0% 48.11. 0.0% 15.7% 35.5% 0.0% 0.0%
AT&T 35.9% 43.6% 0.0% 26.4% 6.2% 0.0% 0.0%
SpriNetel 0.0% 0.0% 97.2% 27.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Clearwire 0.0% 0.0%. 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 85.4% 61.1%
T-Mobile 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 19.6% 34.6% 0.0% 0.0%
MetroPCS 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 2.6% 6.1% 0.0% 0.0o%
US Cellular 2.9% 4.2% 0.0% 2.1% 2.0% 0.0% O0.0%
Leap 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 2.3% 6.6% 0.0% 0.0%
Other97 18.1% 4.1% 2.8% 4.2% 9.0% 14.6% 38.9%
* Estimates in Table 17 include all transactions consummated as of August 15, 2012, as well as the transactions
approved in the Verizon Wireless-SpectrumCo Order. Estimates do not include WCS spectrum that was added in the
spectrum screen in December 2012.395 See Table 17, supra; Table 18, infra.
96 Spectrum tables include 18 megahertz of BRS and 112.5 megahertz of EBS not currently attributable in the
spectrum screen. As noted above, while EBS licensees may lease excess capacity to commercial operators, various
elements of the EBS licensing regime complicate the use of EBS spectrum for commercial purposes. SunCom
Wireless License Company, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of T-Mobile, holds one Cellular license.
397 Total EBS spectrum includes 112.5 megahertz of spectrum, and "Other" EBS spectrum represents spectrum held
by all other providers (including educational institutions and providers such as Digital Bridge) and EBS white space.
Total BRS spectrum includes 73.5 megahertz of spectrum and "Other" BRS spectrum represents spectrum held by
all other providers (such as Digital Bridge) and BRS white space. In the context of transactions, with respect to
both BRS and EBS spectrum, the Commission counts only 55 megahertz of BRS spectrum as suitable and available
for mobile telephony/broadband services. See Sprint Nextel Corporation and Clearwire Corporation, WT Docket
No. 08-94, Memorandum Opinion and Order, 23 FCC Red 17570 (2008).3787
Federal Communications Commission
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