subsidies to absorb the costs of expanding service to adjacent or additional areas where there is little business case for doing so? These and other questions need to be answered before ever going down this route. Furthermore, I am concerned about the precedent we are setting. If we can change licensees’ buildout requirements, what other modifications can be made to meet the various policy goals of the day. Can a future Commission randomly add behavioral conditions like we do in the merger context, can we force sharing or leasing, or can we decide that a current licensee just holds too much spectrum in a market and force them to divest or take it back? Now I know this isn’t the intention of my colleagues, but this slope seems to be mighty slippery and that is a risk I will just not be willing to take.
subsidies to absorb the costs of expanding service to adjacent or additional areas where there is little business case for doing so? These and other questions need to be answered before ever going down this route. Furthermore, I am concerned about the precedent we are setting. If we can change licensees’ buildout requirements, what other modifications can be made to meet the various policy goals of the day. Can a future Commission randomly add behavioral conditions like we do in the merger context, can we force sharing or leasing, or can we decide that a current licensee just holds too much spectrum in a market and force them to divest or take it back? Now I know this isn’t the intention of my colleagues, but this slope seems to be mighty slippery and that is a risk I will just not be willing to take.
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