The FCC appears poised to vote out early this week...
The FCC appears poised to vote out early this week an order that will clear the way for AT&T to buy wireless communications service licenses from various other market players, as AT&T seeks to deploy LTE in the band, FCC…
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and industry officials said Friday. Only Commissioner Mignon Clyburn has yet to vote on the order, officials said. Officials from Clyburn’s office couldn’t be reached for comment Friday. In 2010, the FCC approved an order reallocating the band as a first step toward the National Broadband Plan’s goal of freeing up 500 MHz of spectrum over 10 years for wireless broadband (CD May 21/10 p5). AT&T will add 10-25 MHz of A, B, and C block WCS spectrum from Comcast in 149 cellular market areas, 10 MHz of A block WCS spectrum from Horizon Wi-Com in 132 CMAs and 5-30 MHz of A, B, C, and D block WCS spectrum from NextWave in 476 CMAs, according to FCC documents. The agency sought comment on the proposed transactions in August (http://fcc.us/Y2F3oR). Chairman Julius Genachowski circulated an order on the transactions Dec. 6.