Anti-Consolidation Groups, T-Mobile Lobby FCC on T-Mobile/Sprint
The FCC should seek comment on new developments in T-Mobile buying Sprint, including Dish Network’s waiver request and the DOJ consent decree, said the Communications Workers of America, Public Knowledge, New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute and Consumer Reports to…
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Commissioner Mike O’Rielly Thursday, per a filing posted Monday in docket 18-197. “Given the extraordinary nature of these developments, failure to seek public comment on these inextricably interrelated developments would be a violation of the” Administrative Procedure Act, the groups said. “The DOJ Consent Decree and the DISH waiver and extension requests represent significant changes to the original transaction and raise new and important public interest and competition issues.” Attorneys for T-Mobile had calls about the deal Wednesday and Thursday with an aide to Commissioner Brendan Carr, in response to questions from that office, said a filing. It described the conversations only as referencing the draft order and concerned with “several issues raised in the Applicants’ previous submissions and relevant to the Commission’s public interest and competition.”