Dept. of Justice and FBI submitted petition to FCC outlining cond...
Dept. of Justice and FBI submitted petition to FCC outlining conditions related to national security in pending merger of VoiceStream, Powertel and Germany’s Deutsche Telekom (DT). Companies earlier this month disclosed in SEC filing that they had entered into…
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agreement with DoJ and FBI on national security and law enforcement issues. Companies and federal law enforcers said at time they jointly had asked FCC to defer granting applications for merger approval until after agreement was reached. FCC filing said agreement paid “particular attention” to provisions that would limit control or influence of German govt. through exercise of its control of DT as direct or indirect shareholder. Scrutiny is focused on “day-to-day management” of DT in way that would interfere with carrier’s obligations under agreement. German govt. now has 60% stake in carrier, which will be diluted to 45% after Powertel and VoiceStream deals close. Agreement also covers future U.S. subsidiaries that DT acquires. Under agreement, carrier will make available in U.S. information such as stored domestic communications, electronic communications, subscriber data, billing records, transactional and call-associated data. DoJ and FBI said they had no objections to FCC’s granting proposed license transfers.