Groups Call for Commissioner Vote on AT&T/UScellular
The Rural Wireless Association, Communications Workers of America and public interest groups asked the FCC to consider AT&T’s proposed purchase of spectrum from UScellular in the context of the T-Mobile/UScellular deal. In addition, the groups said it would be “unlawful” for the AT&T transaction to be approved on delegated authority, as the T-Mobile deal was (see 2507310041). New America’s Open Technology Institute and the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society also signed the filing, posted Friday in docket 25-192.
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Consolidated review of the transactions “is essential, as they are interdependent and must be evaluated together in order for the Commission to fully understand their combined impact on competition, rural service, consumer welfare, the labor market, and the broader public interest given the major upheaval of facilities-based competition being sought,” the groups said.