FCC Bureaus Approve Windstream Buy of EarthLink, Note Lack of Opposition
FCC staff cleared Windstream's planned takeover of EarthLink, granting associated communications licenses. The Wireline and International bureaus issued a public notice Thursday in docket 13-393 that noted there had been no opposition to the transaction. Windstream had just asked for…
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quick action. In a filing posted earlier in the day, Windstream counsel Julie Veach of Harris Wiltshire said she spoke Tuesday with Kris Monteith, acting Wireline Bureau chief. "No comments or oppositions had been filed in the ... proceeding, and I encouraged the Bureau to approve the pending application expeditiously," Veach wrote. Windstream and EarthLink expressed confidence they would get federal and state regulatory approvals in the first half of 2017 when they unveiled their $1.1 billion deal (see 1611070032). The deal already has been cleared on antitrust grounds (see 1612210031).