T-Mobile Slams Dish CDMA Complaint at CPUC
T-Mobile said retiring its CDMA network doesn’t violate California OK of the carrier's acquiring Sprint. T-Mobile videoconferenced with an aide to Commissioner Cliff Rechtschaffen and CPUC staff May 24 about Dish Network's April 28 petition to modify the April 2020 T-Mobile/Sprint OK (see 2105060024), said a Thursday filing in docket A.18-07-011. “DISH has been aware of our plans to decommission the CDMA network since it negotiated a contractual agreement with T-Mobile in 2019.” T-Mobile testified it would keep the CDMA network for at least three years, Dish Executive Vice President-External and Legislative Affairs Jeff Blum responded Friday: Shutting it down 18 months earlier is anticompetitive.