FCC to Have Say in Google-Motorola

Because Motorola Mobility owns a few licenses that are under the FCC's jurisdiction, the company will have to apply to transfer those licenses over to Google, a Federal Communications Commission spokesman said.

That process is likely to be more routine than, say, the high-profile license transfer between T-Mobile and AT&T. (Motorola's licenses are not classified as "commercial mobile services" and therefore do not have to hold up against the same kind of public interest scrutiny.) However, that doesn't rule out the chance that other issues could be raised during the process - so we'll be tracking. AND MORE on the acquisition in a moment.