Strike Mobility Fund Complaint From T-Mobile/Sprint Docket, T-Mobile Says
T-Mobile asked the FCC to strike a Mobility Fund Phase II complaint by the Rural Wireless Association from the docket on the company's proposed buy of Sprint. “The Commission has consistently held that matters unrelated to a transaction are not…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Communications Daily is required reading for senior executives at top telecom corporations, law firms, lobbying organizations, associations and government agencies (including the FCC). Join them today!
appropriate for consideration in the context of license transfers,” T-Mobile said Tuesday in docket 18-197. “The FCC’s transfer of control review is limited to ‘considerations of merger-specific effects.’ ... Here, RWA’s claims regarding 4G LTE coverage maps submitted in the MF II proceeding do not arise from the transaction and are wholly unrelated to the license transfers under review.” RWA asked the FCC to investigate the 4G LTE coverage claims of T-Mobile in regard to the MF-II (see 1812270052).