{"id":46715,"date":"2018-09-12T02:50:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T02:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/18\/09\/11\/fcc-pauses-review-of-sprint-and-t-mobile-merger"},"modified":"2018-09-12T02:50:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T02:50:14","slug":"fcc-pauses-review-of-sprint-and-t-mobile-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/12\/fcc-pauses-review-of-sprint-and-t-mobile-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC pauses review of Sprint and T-Mobile merger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Stephen Silver<\/a>
Tuesday, September 11, 2018, 07:50 pm PT (10:50 pm ET)<\/span> <\/p>\n

Government stops the “shot clock” on the merger’s review period, in order to take a look at modeling.
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The Federal Communications Commission sent a letter to Sprint and T-Mobile Tuesday informing the carriers that it’s pausing the current review of their merger. <\/p>\n

“Today we are pausing the Commission’s informal 180-day transaction shot clock in this proceeding. Additional time is necessary to allow for thorough staff and third-party review of newly submitted and anticipated modeling relied on by the Applicants,” said the letter<\/a>, signed by David B. Lawrence, head of the T-Mobile\/Sprint Transaction Task Force, and Donald Stockdale Chief of the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau.<\/p>\n

The new facts requiring review include a revised network engineering model submitted by the parties in early September, the mentioning in a meeting of a T-Mobile business model called “Build 9,” which was not reviewed by the FCC until recently and T-Mobile’s recent disclosure that it “intends to submit additional economic modeling in support of the Applications, beyond that strictly responsive to the various economic analyses in the Petitions to Deny.”<\/p>\n

The 180-day clock, the FCC letter said, “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 Commission will decide whether to extend the deadline for reply comments after receiving the remainder of the Applicants’ modeling submissions.” <\/p>\n

Sprint and T-Mobile announced in April that they had agreed to an all-stock merger worth $26 billion<\/a>, with T-Mobile CEO John Legere to assume leadership of the combined company, to be called “New T-Mobile.” The companies submitted their formal merger request to the FCC in June<\/a>, in which they vowed to “deliver a robust, nationwide world-class 5G network and services sooner than otherwise possible.”<\/p>\n

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