VoiceStream and Deutsche Telekom asked FCC to amend their pending...
VoiceStream and Deutsche Telekom asked FCC to amend their pending merger review documents to reflect several licenses that VoiceStream had bought since license transfer applications were filed in Sept. Additional licenses include several that VoiceStream purchased from Cook Inlet…
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Region Inc. and application to transfer control of GTE Wireless of Cincinnati to VoiceStream subsidiary. VoiceStream subsidiaries Omnipoint and VS Washington also have acquired wireless license since application was filed involving DT acquisition of VoiceStream. VoiceStream and DT asked that licenses that DT is acquiring include those recent VoiceStream acquisitions, as well. “The Commission’s staff has now requested that VoiceStream and DT submit an amendment to expressly list in the petition all licenses which have either been acquired or have been proposed to be acquired since the filing of the petition,” companies wrote in April 12 ex parte filing. They said DT’s indirect foreign ownership of VoiceStream’s licensee subsidiaries, including newly purchased assets, wouldn’t violate any Commission rule and “would yield substantial public interest.”