CCA Loses Bid to Have FCC Consider Together 2 Verizon Spectrum Buys
The FCC rejected a request by the Competitive Carriers Association that the agency address as a single item Verizon’s proposed buy of both spectrum licenses from XO Holdings’ Nextlink Wireless (see 1706050042) and of Straight Path and its high-frequency spectrum…
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(see 1705110052). “CCA argues that the amount of overlapping spectrum that Verizon proposes to acquire in the two transactions would foreclose the Commission from adequately analyzing the full competitive effects of each transaction,” said a Wireless Bureau order in Friday's Daily Digest. “CCA is correct that we have broad discretion in determining how best to conduct our proceedings, but we are not persuaded that we should depart from our normal practice of considering transactions separately when the transactions involve different transferors and are not contingent on each other.”