AT&T and T-Mobile jointly asked the FCC to deny objections...
AT&T and T-Mobile jointly asked the FCC to deny objections by Diogenes Telecom Project to the transfer of AWS licenses from AT&T to T-Mobile. The transfer was part of the breakup fee after AT&T dropped plans to acquire its smaller…
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competitor in December. “The proposed assignments will serve the public interest and are fully consistent with the Communications Act,” they said. “Specifically, the proposed assignments will help T-Mobile USA address its spectrum needs in the subject markets to enable it to better address the growing demands of consumers for wireless data and content services and to move to next-generation mobile technology.” Diogenes filed a petition to deny (http://xrl.us/bmxkv9), arguing that AT&T and T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom “made numerous material misrepresentations to the Commission throughout those proceedings, including false and misleading statements and material omissions.” AT&T and T-Mobile said Diogenes “is simply renewing groundless character claims previously raised before the Commission and unnecessarily wasting scarce agency resources."