The FCC Wireless Bureau signed off on AT&T’s...
The FCC Wireless Bureau signed off on AT&T’s buy of cellular, PCS, lower 700 MHz C block and microwave licenses in 17 markets from Cellular South. The licenses cover parts of Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. AT&T also gets customers, network…
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equipment and other assets, all from Cellular South’s Corr Wireless subsidiary. The deal covers one cellular license, eight PCS licenses, 14 Lower 700 MHz C-block licenses and nine common carrier fixed point-to-point microwave licenses. Only the Rural Telecommunications Group filed a comment raising questions when comments were due in March, the bureau said Tuesday. “Based on the record before us and our review of the proposed transaction, we find that this transaction is unlikely to cause competitive or other public interest harms, and that it is in the public interest to grant these applications,” the order said (http://fcc.us/170aIIJ). The bureau said AT&T won’t hold more than a third of the spectrum included in the commission’s screen in any of the markets where it’s buying licenses. Only one market presented possible competitive concerns, Cellular Market Area 307, covering a rural section of Alabama around Franklin. The bureau examined “this market more closely to determine whether the transaction would likely lead to anticompetitive effects,” the order said. “We conclude it would not."