Groups Challenging T-Mobile/UScellular Approval Meet With Gomez Aides
A coalition opposed to T-Mobile’s purchase of wireless assets from UScellular spoke with aides to FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez about its challenge to a Wireless Bureau order approving the deal. Gomez has said commissioners should have been asked to vote on it (see 2507310041). Representatives from the Rural Wireless Association, Open Technology Institute at New America and Communications Workers of America were present, according to a filing posted Friday in docket 24-286.
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“The Coalition noted that delegating the matter to the Bureaus was an error of law given that the issues addressed in the Order approving the transaction at issue are neither minor nor routine nor settled in nature,” the filing said. The groups "pointed to the clear limitations in the delegations of authority to staff and that, in particular, the Bureaus are precluded from acting on novel issues not governed by Commission precedent.”