AT&T and T-Mobile want to “hide beneath the FCC’s procedural...
AT&T and T-Mobile want to “hide beneath the FCC’s procedural skirts” rather than answer the questions posed, Diogenes Telecom Project said in reply to a response filed by AT&T to T-Mobile. Diogenes asked the FCC to reject a transfer of…
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AWS licenses from AT&T to T-Mobile, part of the breakup fee after AT&T dropped plans to acquire its smaller competitor in December. 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 asked the FCC to reject the petition and approve the transfer (CD March 12 p10). Diogenes is not backing down from those charges. “Yet again, AT&T and T-Mobile have chosen not to reply to the serious charges of misrepresentation and lack of candor, preferring instead to argue petty procedural points,” Diogenes said (http://xrl.us/bmysa9).