The FCC should not act on an order permitting the...
The FCC should not act on an order permitting the sale of Qualcomm spectrum to AT&T while AT&T is still pushing forward on its buy of T-Mobile, the Rural Telecommunications Group said in a letter filed at the FCC Wednesday.…
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“So long as AT&T doggedly pursues a takeover of T-Mobile, the Commission needs to put the Qualcomm transaction on ice given the vast amounts of nationwide spectrum involved in each transaction,” said RTG General Counsel Carri Bennet. Last week, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski circulated draft orders the same day approving the Qualcomm deal while sending AT&T/T-Mobile to an administrative law judge for hearing (CD Nov 23 p1). Tuesday, the FCC allowed AT&T to withdraw the latter application (CD Nov 30 p1). “RTG respectfully requests that the AT&T-Qualcomm applications be held in abeyance so the Commission can continue to consider AT&T’s acquisition of the Qualcomm spectrum and AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile in a coordinated manner,” RTG said (http://xrl.us/bmjvtm). “The Commission has already stated that its review of the two proposed transactions ‘raise[s] a number of related issues.'"