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FCC Creates T-Mobile/Sprint Docket; Key Filing Expected

T-Mobile/Sprint didn't file by our deadline Monday their application to the FCC to combine (see 1806150040). T-Mobile plans to buy Sprint in a $59 billion deal, unveiled April 29 (see 1804290001). Friday, the Wireless Bureau created a docket on the…

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transaction, 18-197, and issued a protective order for confidential information that will be filed as part of the commission’s review. “While we are mindful of the sensitive nature of some of the information involved, we are also mindful of the general right of the public, and our desire for the public, to participate in this proceeding in a meaningful way,” the protective order said. “Allowing limited access to competitively sensitive materials pursuant to the procedures set forth in this Protective Order allows the public (through appropriate representatives) to do so while also protecting competitively sensitive information from improper disclosure and use.” The agency Monday posted a Thursday letter to the FCC by T-Mobile and Sprint, asking that the docket be opened and the protective order granted. Lawyers on the filing were Nancy Victory of DLA Piper for T-Mobile and Regina Keeney of Lawler Metzger for Sprint.