AT&T Slams Alarm Industry Arguments on 3G Shutdown
AT&T criticized the latest comments from the Alarm Industry Communications Committee asking the FCC to reject the carrier's plan to shutter its 3G network starting Feb. 22 (see 2109150041). Granting the petition would “throw a monkey wrench into AT&T’s carefully…
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planned 5G transition,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 21-304. “The Commission lacks statutory authority to delay AT&T’s 3G sunset,” the carrier said: “AICC’s rationales for delaying that sunset remain irreconcilable with the presumptively truthful assurances that its member companies have given investors about the business effects of COVID and the global microchip shortage.” Delay “would threaten AT&T’s network performance,” it said. AICC didn't comment.