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In his statement approving the SoftBank/Sprint/Clearwire deal, Commissioner Ajit Pai said his colleagues on the commission had “graciously accommodated my suggested changes,” on the way to release of a final order Friday (CD July 8 p1). FCC officials told us Monday the changes Pai advocated were centered on the spectrum screen used in evaluating the merger and how much Broadband Radio Service/Educational Broadband Service should be counted by the agency. Rather than developing new rules based on the specific transaction, the FCC essentially kicked the issue down the road to be considered as part of the spectrum aggregation proceeding also before the commission, officials said. In a key line, the order (http://bit.ly/10EuNDR) said: “We do not find the proposed transactions to be the appropriate proceeding to consider whether to modify the screen to include more than 55.5 megahertz of the 2.5 GHz band.”