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Oct. 2, 2008

One more time, T-Mobile has spoken out, this time at an increased pace, against M2Z Networks’ plan to build a nationwide AWS-3 wireless network.

M2Z is a startup and some say it dosen't have the expertise and the right technology to build an AWS-3 network that would cover all of the U.S. Others disagree.

However, M2Z Networks still has no FCC approval to build a mobile WiMAX network and, worse, even no technology for sale.

And yet M2Z’s plan to give away service for free is drawing a loud response from T-Mobile and other major wireless carriers and operators such as AT&T, MetroPCS, Nokia, the CTIA and others.

T-Mobile’s newest statements include a technical analysis it commissioned from Optimi and a letter asserting that the U.S. public doesn’t need what M2Z wants to provide.

Incumbents argue that M2Z’s proposal would significantly interfere with existing AWS-1 networks.

M2Z claims the interference argument is totally false and is meant as a distraction from a different issue: that its opponents want to prevent anyone from offering free service. Period.

Despite M2Z’s CEO and top technical adviser both being former FCC officials, on Monday, T-Mobile issued a statement that M2Z is unqualified to make technical judgments about the interference. Relations between M2Z and T-Mobile have never been so tense.

So far, M2Z hasn't issued any reply as to T-Mobile’s current round of statements.

Also, FCC officials declined to state a timeframe for its findings on the matter. We will keep you posted on this story as it develops.

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Source: T-Mobile USA.