T-Mobile, SoniqWave Proposes Spectrum Swap

T-Mobile is proposing a swap with SoniqWave in which it would trade licenses purchased in the 2021 3.45 GHz auction for more 2.5 GHz spectrum. The swap would let T-Mobile “provide improved broadband coverage and enhanced data capacity using contiguous 2.5 GHz … spectrum in multiple markets throughout the United States,” said a Form 603 filing at the FCC. In exchange, SoniqWave would get 28 licenses in 14 partial economic areas “in the developing 3.45 GHz band,” the filing said: “SoniqWave believes that the growing eco-system around the 3.45 GHz band, coupled with the variety of wireless carriers that are, or soon will, be deploying in that band, offers exciting opportunities not presently available to it.”