FCC Seeks Comment on AT&T Spectrum Buy in Pennsylvania, Cites Numbering Data
The FCC set a pleading cycle on AT&T's planned spectrum buy from Lackawaxen Long Distance in Pennsylvania. Petitions to deny the application for transfer of control of the lower 700 MHz C-Block license are due March 1, oppositions to petitions…
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March 8, replies March 15, said a public notice Wednesday in docket 17-36. The applicants say AT&T would hold 24 MHz of contiguous, paired lower 700 MHz spectrum in the local market, allowing a 10 x 10 MHz LTE deployment, said the PN, which noted staff preliminarily found AT&T would hold 111 to 131 MHz total, including 61 MHz of below-1-GHz spectrum in the local market. A separate public notice said: "In connection with the Commission’s review of the proposed transaction, the Commission intends to examine information contained in the biannual Numbering Resource Utilization and Forecast (NRUF) reports filed by wireless telecommunications carriers, carrier-specific local number portability (LNP) data related to wireless telecommunications carriers, and further disaggregated monthly carrier-specific local number portability data (Carrier-to-Carrier LNP Data) related to wireless telecommunications carriers. These data may assist the Commission in assessing the competitive effects of the transaction."