T-Mobile Sues Florida School Board Over 2.5 GHz Licenses

By J. Sharpe Smith, Inside Towers Technology Editor

T-Mobile, through its subsidiary NSAC LLC, has sued the School Board of St. Lucie County, FL for breaching provisions of a spectrum lease agreement for frequencies in the Educational Broadcast Service at 2.5 GHz by attempting to sell them to another company. The school system holds two licenses to use eight channels of spectrum in the Fort Pierce, FL area. In November 2021, the Board informed NSAC that it had received an offer for the licenses from a third-party competitor to NSAC, WCO Spectrum LLC (WCO), for $6,795,000. Three months later, in February 2022, the Board informed NSAC that it had received another offer from WCO for $7,550,000. Continue Reading