AT&T has release anofficial responseto the FCC ’s report on their attempted uniting with T - Mobile . And boy do they get feisty !
AT&T drop much of the paper cry foul against the FCC , accusing the authority of wangle and disregard facts , and providing faulty logic . But aside from saying the FCC is incorrect , they only offer fact - based rebuttal in a few areas .
While AT&T does charge out some logical flaws in the FCC ’s argument — like the fact that Obama ’s opening for a nationwide mobile broadband rollout is superfluous if the FCC believes that market place competition will goad wideband elaboration irrespective — they mostly resort to refuting claims by citing previous report and statement in a non - specific manner . Take , for example , this paragraph :
The report also seemed to pay no creative thinker to the FCC ’s own National Broadband Plan which called the construction out of peregrine broadband to rural area a national imperative form . Again , the report ’s argument is that rural buildout is not really an issue to be take into score in our merger because it will come anyway . This is at odds with nigh every FCC and Administration financial statement of the past year when it come to rural buildout , and in our scene demonstrates how far the reputation ’s authors were uncoerced to go for ignore every single benefit of our merger with T - Mobile .
Essentially , this has all deform into a convoluted clusterflock of a situation in which two monolith have resorted to fingerpointing and spinning in an effort to gain public reinforcement . It ’s a fair argument that the FCC was perhaps out of line publish this report to the public , and AT&T did end with a pledge to see this fusion through if the FCC is willing to talk terms . But mostly , one bewilder the feeling that it ’s more smoke and not much fervidness .
The full reponse from AT&T can be found here , though the faint of warmness may want to take cautiousness .
UPDATE : Oh , hey ! Sprint ’s SVP of Government Affairs , Vonya McCann has a few digit of her own to point !
“ The FCC faculty ’s Analysis and Findings provide a measured , substantial analysis of AT&T ’s proposed coup d’etat of T - Mobile , consistent with the FCC ’s role as the independent , expert office responsible for such uniting reviews . Rather than take the expert federal agency ’s Analysis and Findings , AT&T has chosen to make groundless claim about the FCC ’s summons . Let ’s not bury that it was AT&T who essay to bet on the operation by requesting to retire its fusion practical software in the pre - dawn hours of Thanksgiving . AT&T ca n’t have it both ways : either it want to have an program program that would be adjudicate on the merits or it did n’t . We tally with AT&T on one stage however : the public should read the Analysis and Findings on AT&T ’s proposed coup d’etat . ”
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