With one brief letter, the Federal Communications Commission has put a stop to any hopes that two pending AT&T deals — its $1.9 billion purchase of spectrum licenses from Qualcomm and its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for about $39 billion — will be easy to settle. In the letter, which was sent to executives at AT&T and Qualcomm, Rick Kaplan, chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, explained that the agency would be coordinating its inquiry into the two acquisitions for simultaneous review.
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FCC May Thwart AT&T's Expansion Ambitions
Posted by: Erika Morphy August 10, 2011 05:00 AMWith one brief letter, the Federal Communications Commission has put a stop to any hopes that two pending AT&T deals — its $1.9 billion purchase of spectrum licenses from Qualcomm and its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for about $39 billion — will be easy to settle. In the letter, which was sent to executives at AT&T and Qualcomm, Rick Kaplan, chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, explained that the agency would be coordinating its inquiry into the two acquisitions for simultaneous review.