It literally took an act of Congress, but T-Mobile US will get access to the licenses the carrier won in 2022.
President Joe Biden has signed the 5G SALE Act, giving temporary authorization to the Federal Communications Commission to process the transfers of 2.5 GHz spectrum licenses.
The Federal Communications Commission’s statutory authority to auction licenses expired in early March 2023. As a result, the FCC stopped all auction-related activity—including processing the transfer of most of the licenses which had already been auctioned and paid for as part of the 2.5 GHz auction, which wrapped up in the fall of 2022.
