C Spire Challenges T-Mobile Rural Plans Post-Sprint Acquisition

C Spire and T-Mobile have been duking it out in dueling letters to the Federal Communications Commission concerning T-Mobile rural plans which, according to T-Mobile, are contingent on its planned merger with Sprint being approved by regulators. T-Mobile has said it would broadly expand fixed wireless service to rural areas if it obtains Sprint’s vast spectrum holdings. But C Spire and the Rural Wireless Association questioned the viability of those plans in a letter to the FCC, expressing concern about whether T-Mobile would have sufficient high-speed backhaul capacity to support those plans.