T-Mobile/Sprint Meet FCC Chief of Staff on Proposed Deal

General Counsel David Miller and others from T-Mobile and Sprint met FCC Chief of Staff Matthew Berry on their proposed deal. Also attending were Julius Knapp, chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology, and members of the FCC's T-Mobile/Sprint transaction team, said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 18-197. The companies “reviewed in detail the New T-Mobile 5G network build plan, as described in their network model and various filings previously submitted in this docket,” the companies said: “The representatives discussed the planned low-band and mid-band 5G network coverage, the pace and depth of such deployment, and the resulting speeds likely to be experienced by consumers using 5G devices. The representatives also discussed New T-Mobile’s incentives to complete the 5G network build as proposed.”