AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said Congress, not states, must tackle privacy and net neutrality laws. State privacy laws are a problem for everyone, including AT&T, Facebook and Google, he told a Goldman Sachs conference Wednesday. “I don’t even know how we operate” under different laws, he said. “It needs to happen at the federal level,” he said. “Congress needs to step up.”
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said Congress, not states, must tackle privacy and net neutrality laws. State privacy laws are a problem for everyone, including AT&T, Facebook and Google, he told a Goldman Sachs conference Wednesday. “I don’t even know how we operate” under different laws, he said. “It needs to happen at the federal level,” he said. “Congress needs to step up.”
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said Congress, not states, must tackle privacy and net neutrality laws. State privacy laws are a problem for everyone, including AT&T, Facebook and Google, he told a Goldman Sachs conference Wednesday. “I don’t even know how we operate” under different laws, he said. “It needs to happen at the federal level,” he said. “Congress needs to step up.”
The FCC Tuesday paused the unofficial 180-day shot clock on its review of T-Mobile buying Sprint. The FCC cited a “substantially revised" and more complex network engineering model T-Mobile submitted Sept. 5 and a business model T-Mobile executives described on Aug. 29 but didn't disclose until Sept. 5. T-Mobile has also promised additional economic modeling it has yet to file, said a letter from Wireless Bureau Chief Donald Stockdale and David Lawrence, director of the task force reviewing the deal. "The clock will remain stopped until the Applicants have completed the record on which they intend to rely and a reasonable period of time has passed for staff and third-party review." The two companies released a joint statement. "We appreciate that the FCC is taking the time necessary to fully understand the merits," the companies said. "The additional review time is common to FCC merger reviews and we recently supplied a large amount of data to the FCC that they want sufficient time to assess. We are confident that this transaction is pro-competitive, good for the country and good for American consumers, and we look forward to continuing to work with the FCC as they evaluate our plans." The Wireless Bureau meanwhile asked for data from Verizon, as part of the agency’s ongoing analysis of the deal. The bureau said in a Monday letter in Tuesday's Daily Digest and docket 18-197 it may seek other information. AT&T officials said they were called in by the FCC to discuss the company’s “5G deployment plans” relative to the deal. The bureau also requested data from AT&T and from U.S. Cellular (see here and here). Also Tuesday, T-Mobile said it signed a multiyear, $3.5 billion contract with Ericsson to support the carrier's nationwide deployment of 5G. “Ericsson will provide T-Mobile with the latest 5G New Radio hardware and software compliant with 3GPP standards,” T-Mobile said. “The contract also encompasses Ericsson’s digital services solutions, including dynamic orchestration, business support systems (BSS) and Ericsson Cloud Core, enabling T-Mobile to rapidly launch innovative and groundbreaking 5G experiences.”
The FCC Tuesday paused the unofficial 180-day shot clock on its review of T-Mobile buying Sprint. The FCC cited a “substantially revised" and more complex network engineering model T-Mobile submitted Sept. 5 and a business model T-Mobile executives described on Aug. 29 but didn't disclose until Sept. 5. T-Mobile has also promised additional economic modeling it has yet to file, said a letter from Wireless Bureau Chief Donald Stockdale and David Lawrence, director of the task force reviewing the deal. "The clock will remain stopped until the Applicants have completed the record on which they intend to rely and a reasonable period of time has passed for staff and third-party review." The two companies released a joint statement. "We appreciate that the FCC is taking the time necessary to fully understand the merits," the companies said. "The additional review time is common to FCC merger reviews and we recently supplied a large amount of data to the FCC that they want sufficient time to assess. We are confident that this transaction is pro-competitive, good for the country and good for American consumers, and we look forward to continuing to work with the FCC as they evaluate our plans." The Wireless Bureau meanwhile asked for data from Verizon, as part of the agency’s ongoing analysis of the deal. The bureau said in a Monday letter in Tuesday's Daily Digest and docket 18-197 it may seek other information. AT&T officials said they were called in by the FCC to discuss the company’s “5G deployment plans” relative to the deal. The bureau also requested data from AT&T and from U.S. Cellular (see here and here). Also Tuesday, T-Mobile said it signed a multiyear, $3.5 billion contract with Ericsson to support the carrier's nationwide deployment of 5G. “Ericsson will provide T-Mobile with the latest 5G New Radio hardware and software compliant with 3GPP standards,” T-Mobile said. “The contract also encompasses Ericsson’s digital services solutions, including dynamic orchestration, business support systems (BSS) and Ericsson Cloud Core, enabling T-Mobile to rapidly launch innovative and groundbreaking 5G experiences.”
The FCC Tuesday paused the unofficial 180-day shot clock on its review of T-Mobile buying Sprint. The FCC cited a “substantially revised" and more complex network engineering model T-Mobile submitted Sept. 5 and a business model T-Mobile executives described on Aug. 29 but didn't disclose until Sept. 5. T-Mobile has also promised additional economic modeling it has yet to file, said a letter from Wireless Bureau Chief Donald Stockdale and David Lawrence, director of the task force reviewing the deal. "The clock will remain stopped until the Applicants have completed the record on which they intend to rely and a reasonable period of time has passed for staff and third-party review." The two companies released a joint statement. "We appreciate that the FCC is taking the time necessary to fully understand the merits," the companies said. "The additional review time is common to FCC merger reviews and we recently supplied a large amount of data to the FCC that they want sufficient time to assess. We are confident that this transaction is pro-competitive, good for the country and good for American consumers, and we look forward to continuing to work with the FCC as they evaluate our plans." The Wireless Bureau meanwhile asked for data from Verizon, as part of the agency’s ongoing analysis of the deal. The bureau said in a Monday letter in Tuesday's Daily Digest and docket 18-197 it may seek other information. AT&T officials said they were called in by the FCC to discuss the company’s “5G deployment plans” relative to the deal. The bureau also requested data from AT&T and from U.S. Cellular (see here and here). Also Tuesday, T-Mobile said it signed a multiyear, $3.5 billion contract with Ericsson to support the carrier's nationwide deployment of 5G. “Ericsson will provide T-Mobile with the latest 5G New Radio hardware and software compliant with 3GPP standards,” T-Mobile said. “The contract also encompasses Ericsson’s digital services solutions, including dynamic orchestration, business support systems (BSS) and Ericsson Cloud Core, enabling T-Mobile to rapidly launch innovative and groundbreaking 5G experiences.”
Dish Network-designated entities Northstar Wireless and SNR Wireless are asking an appellate court to hold in abeyance their appeal seeking a review of the FCC's July order (see 1807130003) reaffirming FCC Wireless Bureau procedures for the DEs to comply with the court's 2017 remand. In a consent motion (in Pacer, docket 18-1209) for abeyance filed Thursday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the two said the FCC is "proceeding with additional actions" that could give rise to more proceedings before the court related to the issues of the case and a consolidated case. They asked the cases be held in abeyance until those issues can be consolidated with the pending cases. The D.C. Circuit last year upheld FCC denial of AWS-3 auction bidding credits to the DEs but gave them a chance to negotiate a solution to Dish's de facto control (see 1708290012).
Dish Network-designated entities Northstar Wireless and SNR Wireless are asking an appellate court to hold in abeyance their appeal seeking a review of the FCC's July order (see 1807130003) reaffirming FCC Wireless Bureau procedures for the DEs to comply with the court's 2017 remand. In a consent motion (in Pacer, docket 18-1209) for abeyance filed Thursday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the two said the FCC is "proceeding with additional actions" that could give rise to more proceedings before the court related to the issues of the case and a consolidated case. They asked the cases be held in abeyance until those issues can be consolidated with the pending cases. The D.C. Circuit last year upheld FCC denial of AWS-3 auction bidding credits to the DEs but gave them a chance to negotiate a solution to Dish's de facto control (see 1708290012).
SAN DIEGO -- Smart home company Brilliant Home Technology announced availability Thursday of its home automation technology, which controls lights, thermostats, locks, doorbells and Sonos speakers over Wi-Fi from a smart light switch. Brilliant received CTA’s TechHome Mark of Excellence award for product of the year, announced at CES.
AT&T fired back at Lincoln, Nebraska, which told the FCC last week (see 1808310049) the carrier was off base in claiming (see 1808130041) high fees delayed investments there in wireless infrastructure. “Lincoln’s ex parte is factually inaccurate and purposefully misleading. In our Aug. 6th ex parte, we clearly state that ‘AT&T has paused its deployment plans,’” a spokesperson emailed. “We are not making deployment a priority in Nebraska and are instead focusing on cities like Des Moines because of favorable, and reasonable, small cell policies that benefit consumers. ... Lincoln’s decision to charge $1,995 per small cell attachment is driving away investment and depriving its residents of next generation technologies.” Monday, the city didn’t comment.