Sprint Assault Over Spectrum Concentration Enlivens California Debate on T-Mobile Sale

摘要

A Sprint executive criticized AT&T for seeking to dominate spectrum holdings and thereby the nwireless market, rousing an otherwise staid three-round California Public Utilities nCommission debate in San Franciso about the T-Mobile deal. Administrative Law Judge nJessica Hecht repeatedly scolded Sprint's director of spectrum proceedings, Trey Hanbury, for ninterrupting executives from the deal parties that he appeared with. In contrast to other nspeakers at the first of three technical workshops that the commission has scheduled nfor this month in a review of the purchase, Hanbury was so assertive that at one point he ncaught himself grabbing a question by a Sprint consultant in the audience directed to William nHogg, AT&T's senior vice president of network planning and engineering. The tag-team nargument -- with Andrew Merson, Cricket's engineering vice president helping Hanbury nagainst Hogg and Peter Ewens, T-Mobile's chief strategy officer -- was lively but never heated.