The FCC today gave its blessing to T-Mobile’s acquistion of a swatch of 700 MHz A Block spectrum from Verizon. 

In an emailed statement, T-Mobile Vice President of Federal Regulatory Affairs Kathleen Ham thanked the FCC for approving the deal. 

“T-Mobile is pleased by the FCC’s prompt approval of our acquisition of 700 MHz A-Block spectrum, which will provide the company with low-band spectrum in a number of key markets across the country,” Ham said.

The spectrum comes as part of a spectrum swap between T-Mobile and Verizon. T-Mobile ended up spending about $2.4 billion and sending some AWS and PCS licenses to Verizon in order to get its hands on the low-band spectrum.

T-Mobile expects to begin deploying LTE on that spectrum this year.