CPUC Won't Strike Dish Testimony in T-Mobile Probe

Dish Network’s Jeff Blum is pleased his testimony will remain in the California Public Utilities Commission’s review of whether T-Mobile misled the commission about the timing of its CDMA shutdown, the executive vice president-external and legal affairs said Friday. Administrative Law Judge Karl Bemesderfer Thursday denied T-Mobile's motion to strike what Blum said at a Sept. 20 hearing in docket A.18-07-011 (see 2110060050). T-Mobile extended its CDMA shutdown three months Oct. 22 (see 2110250042). Blum said Dish will file a brief Nov. 5 "on why T-Mobile should be sanctioned for misleading the Commission about its premature CDMA shutdown.” T-Mobile didn’t comment.