AT&T Explains Arguments for Revised DE Rules
Reform is "essential" for the FCC’s designated entity (DE) rules (see 1505110048), AT&T said on a call with FCC Wireless Bureau Chief Roger Sherman and others at the commission last week to explain its proposal, made along with smaller carriers,…
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for a rethink of the rules. Officials said "we believed a new approach should be considered -- one that would assure policymakers and taxpayers alike that auction subsidies will be directed to true small communications businesses and rural telephone companies,” said a filing on the call, posted by the FCC Tuesday in docket 14-170. “We also explained that while any new program should support new entrants, such support must be sufficiently defined so as to not invite big business dollars and deep pocketed investors to stand behind newly formed [DEs] in a play for unmerited financial advantage.”