Antoinette Cook Bush, lawyer for Sprint Nextel, urged...

proceeding had closed on February 25, 2013,” said an ex parte filing on the call (http://bit.ly/17ECSgH). “I also noted that the national security agencies’ review of the ... proceeding being undertaken by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States was complete.” Cook said the FCC should ignore objections raised by the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (CD May 29 p4) as “untimely and therefore a violation of the Commission’s rules insofar as it raises issues that should have been brought to the Commission’s attention at the time of the initial pleadings, months ago.” “Diversity is a vital and necessary part of the Commission’s consideration of every transaction -- especially this transaction, which is the second largest wireless acquisition in history,” MMTC President David Honig said in response. “The transaction is profoundly important to minorities, for whom wireless is the first technology in which they are the lead adopters. Nearly 40 percent of wireless consumers are minorities. Shortly, MMTC will respond by letter to Sprint’s poorly taken ad hominem and nonsubstantive attack. Unfortunately, the only document in the record that normally would be expected to address diversity is the Softbank application’s Public Interest Statement. That document is unusual in that it is silent on diversity."