The FCC should “align its production instructions” with those used by...
The FCC should “align its production instructions” with those used by the Justice Department for documents on Verizon Wireless’s deal to buy spectrum from four cable operators, if both agencies seek “overlapping categories” of paperwork, the companies told the commission.…
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The companies are making “ongoing efforts to comply with document requests” from Justice, a lawyer for Comcast reported he and executives for that company and the carrier and Time Warner Cable and attorneys for Bright House Networks and Cox Communications told FCC officials. There’s a “need to protect the confidentiality of documents and information provided to the Commission in this proceeding,” the filing said of the meeting with Renata Hesse, who advises FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on transactions, and staff in other bureaus and offices. Some nonprofit groups seeking to block FCC approval of the AWS deals want access to confidential marketing agreements between the companies (CD Feb 23 p1). The ex parte filing was posted Wednesday in docket 12-4 (http://xrl.us/bmt7ie).