The FCC opened a docket (12-234) for monitoring the conditions...
The FCC opened a docket (12-234) for monitoring the conditions it imposed on the Verizon Wireless AWS spectrum transaction (CD Aug 24 p1). Ex parte meetings on the matter will be allowed but must be disclosed, a public notice said…
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(http://xrl.us/bnm36y). Of note in the FCC’s Thursday order was the retention of the existing one-third limit on spectrum ownership, Guggenheim Partners analyst Paul Gallant wrote in a note to investors. “The decision to retain the 145 MHz per-company limit is noteworthy because some observers had interpreted VZW’s sale of spectrum to T-Mobile as signaling that the FCC was planning to significantly lower the cap,” he wrote. “Instead the FCC kept the status quo, at least for the most important benchmark (1/3) for future deals."