Nearly a dozen telecommunications and technology groups urged lawmakers Thursday...
Nearly a dozen telecommunications and technology groups urged lawmakers Thursday to require the Department of Justice and FCC to increase transparency in their consideration of the proposed Verizon/SpectrumCo transaction. The groups told lawmakers in a letter that they should be…
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“very concerned” about the competitive impact of the proposed deal and particularly alarmed that there’s no transparency in the dealings for the FCC and interested parties to properly review these “unprecedented agreements.” The letter was sent to House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., Ranking Member Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., House Competition Subcommittee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., Ranking Member Mel Watt, D-N.C., and members of the House Commerce and Judiciary committees. The letter was signed by Access Humboldt, the Center for Rural Strategies, the Computer & Communications Industry Association, the Eastern Rural Telecom Association, the Independent Telephone and Telecommunications Alliance, the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association, Public Knowledge, the Rural Broadband Alliance, the Rural Independent Competitive Alliance, the Rural Telecommunications Group, and the Western Telecommunications Alliance.