Illinois Regulator Backs T-Mobile/Sprint; FCC Notes New York, California AG Requests
Illinois Commerce Commission Chairman Brien Sheahan urged FCC approval of T-Mobile buying Sprint. It "will benefit consumers in a variety of ways including acceleration of the build out of 5G service in both urban and -- importantly -- in rural…
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areas of Illinois," said a Sheahan letter posted Tuesday in docket 18-197. Meanwhile, the New York attorney general's office and California's AG requested access to confidential information in the proceeding, including from other carriers, said a public notice Tuesday so affected carriers can contact the state officials or otherwise object. T-Mobile said it received a subpoena from the New York AG's office on its review, seeking all materials the company received from the FCC, including confidential wireless carrier numbering resource utilization and forecast (NRUF) reports and disaggregated, wireless carrier local number portability (LNP) data, said the PN. It noted the New York office intends to share the materials with other state AG offices and signed confidentiality agreements with T-Mobile and Sprint. The NY and California AGs notified the FCC that "they plan to seek materials that contain or incorporate NRUF/LNP Confidential Information," the PN said.