Petitions to deny are due April 4 on a series...
Petitions to deny are due April 4 on a series of spectrum deals among AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Grain Spectrum announced in January (CD Jan 28 p9). Oppositions are due April 15, replies April 22, according to the FCC public…
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notice (http://bit.ly/14tAXVq). AT&T is proposing to buy 39 of Verizon Wireless’s lower 700 MHz B-block licenses in exchange for $1.9 billion cash and the transfer of several AWS licenses. The two carriers also unveiled related spectrum agreements with private equity firm Grain. AT&T said it will lease three 700 MHz B-block licenses in North Carolina that Verizon Wireless is selling to Grain for $189 million, covering the Charlotte, Greensboro and Raleigh-Durham markets. AT&T also plans to sell to Grain an AWS license covering Dallas, which Verizon Wireless will then lease. “According to the Applicants, the proposed transaction would allow AT&T and Verizon Wireless each to further rationalize their spectrum holdings and obtain contiguous spectrum in many markets, enabling more spectrally efficient deployments and assisting AT&T and Verizon Wireless to provide high-quality, high-speed wireless broadband,” the public notice said. “The Applicants also allege that the proposed transaction would further the Commission’s goal of extending opportunities in the wireless market to small and minority-owned businesses by enabling Grain, a minority-owned business, with an existing telecommunications infrastructure business, to participate in complementary spectrum-based services initially on a wholesale basis."