Wireline Bureau Seeks Comment on vCom/AppSmart Transaction
The FCC Wireline Bureau sought comment Friday on a vCom proposal to sell its operations, including FCC licenses, to AppSmart. Comments are due Jan. 24, replies Jan. 31, in docket 24-657. “vCom’s wholly-owned subsidiaries, QuantumShift and QuantumShift Virginia, provide intrastate…
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and interstate communications services entirely on a resale basis, and they do not own or operate any communications facilities,” the bureau said: “Licensees work with a range of facilities-based and reseller carriers, and resell IP services, mobile voice and data, and both traditional local and long-distance switched voice service as well as interconnected VoIP service.” Applicants state that they will “continue to exist and operate under the same name and will continue to provide services pursuant to then-existing rates, terms, and conditions for the near term and any future changes will be undertaken pursuant to customers’ contracts and applicable law,” the bureau said. AppDirect announced in November plans to buy vCom and QuantumShift.