The Rural Telecommunications Group asked the FCC to reject the...
The Rural Telecommunications Group asked the FCC to reject the Verizon Wireless/T-Mobile spectrum swap, in a petition RTG released late Tuesday. It noted that some of the licenses Verizon proposes to sell still must be obtained from SpectrumCo, Cox or…
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Leap Wireless. “Because Verizon does not have the legal authority to assign 47 of the licenses, the Commission should hold the above-captioned applications in abeyance pending the outcome of the underlying transactions involving Verizon, the Cable Companies and Leap,” RTG said. “It is unprecedented from a public interest standpoint for concerned parties to be required to file petitions to deny or comments on a transaction that is dependent on the approval of another hotly contested transaction."