T-Mobile Urges Calif. PUC Against Reopening 2020 Sprint Deal Docket
T-Mobile defended its hiring practices in response to the Center for Accessible Technology's (CforAT) petition for the California Public Utilities Commission to reopen its docket on T-Mobile's 2020 acquisition of Sprint (see 2003110043). The company said in a filing posted Wednesday (docket A1807011) that the group's petition is "procedurally improper," and any compliance issues should be resolved through the CPUC's existing enforcement mechanisms. CforAT petitioned the CPUC in May, saying it "appears" that T-Mobile isn't complying with several "mandatory merger conditions" based on a March letter from the company to the FCC.
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CforAT said the letter "indicates that T-Mobile is no longer working with community organizations on policy matters, technology needs, and investment and that it has abandoned its commitment to supplier diversity." The group also said that while the letter doesn't "explicitly indicate that T-Mobile is failing to comply with the other diversity conditions, language in that letter makes it seem likely that T-Mobile is out of compliance with those obligations as well." T-Mobile responded to the petition in May as well, saying CforAT was "relying purely on speculation" because the company had "retired two specific community-outreach efforts."