CWA, Others Ask FCC to Stop T-Mobile/Sprint Clock or Grant Extension on Petitions to Deny
Groups asked the FCC to halt its 180-day review "clock" on T-Mobile's planned buy of Sprint, until applicants "supplement their public interest statement to adequately describe the extensive spectrum aggregation that will result." The agency "should establish a new pleading…
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cycle, with Petitions to Deny due four weeks following the Applicant’s submission of and the agency’s publication of sufficient information for the Commission and the public to sufficiently review the spectrum concentration," said a motion Friday, in docket 18-197, of the Communications Workers of America, Rural Wireless Association, NTCA, Public Knowledge, Consumers Union, The Greenlining Institute, Common Cause, New America’s Open Technology Institute, Writers Guild of America West, Free Press and Benton Foundation. Alternatively, they requested, at least extend the deadline for filing petitions to deny to Sept. 17, which is "warranted in light of the importance and complexity of this proceeding, conflicts with the major Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and the glut of overlapping major proceedings" open for public comment. The FCC, Sprint and T-Mobile didn't comment. GCI Communication supports the transaction "because it will create a stronger mobile broadband operator with sufficient scale and financial resources to bring much-needed wholesale and retail wireless competition." The cable operator/telco said a T-Mobile roaming deal helps it provide "competitive wireless broadband service" to customers traveling outside Alaska.