AT&T Urges FCC To Reject More Conditions On Merger

AT&T URGES FCC TO REJECT MORE CONDITIONS ON MERGER
[SOURCE: Technology Daily 11/2, AUTHOR: David Hatch]
"There are no new facts to gather, no new proposals to consider, and [there is] nothing more to do," the companies wrote in a letter dated last Friday that surfaced this week. AT&T, which recently outlined a series of conditions that the merger partners support, said the FCC should reject efforts by their opponents to saddle them with more restrictions. "While competitors continue to clamor for handouts, and while inside-the-Beltway interest groups continue to press their own narrow and misguided policy agendas, none of their proposals is remotely related to any real merger-specific harm," the companies wrote. They argued that this reason alone is sufficient to reject demands for more requirements. The letter was submitted to the FCC just before a week-long "sunshine" period when regulators cannot discuss the transaction with outside parties.
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