FCC Seeks Comment on US Cellular and Cox Spectrum Deal

United States Cellular Corporation and Cox TMI Wireless have filed an application seeking to assign four Lower 700 MHz Band A Block licenses from Cox to USCC. The Applicants state that the additional spectrum will enable USCC to offer innovative wireless services and improve and enhance its voice and data service offerings to the public in thirty Cellular Market Areas (CMAs) in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Preliminary review of the application indicates that USCC would hold, post transaction, a maximum of 61 megahertz of spectrum below 1 GHz in 29 counties across six CMAs and a maximum of 49 megahertz of spectrum below 1 GHz in an additional 25 counties across five CMAs.

Petitions to Deny the transaction are due May 29, 2012. Oppositions are due June 8, 2012. Replies are due June 15, 2012