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...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 26. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Agricultural machinery company John Deere and Diageo make up the rest of the top five, while further down we find Canada’s national railway system; car seller AutoNation; Spanish construction company FCC...
...“Anything short of the wireless carriers lighting up their C-band operations on January 5 pursuant to the FCC’s regulatory regime would mark an unacceptable setback for US leadership in 5G”, he added....
...The FCC, which is the main US telecoms regulator, has been examining the deal, but a committee review would add another layer of regulatory involvement....
...spectrum in this auction because the alternative was worse — becoming an also-ran in the race to 5G,” said Sasha Javid, chief operating officer of data network BitPath and a former chief data officer at the FCC...
...In December, the company launched a court appeal against the US telecoms regulator (FCC), alleging that it acted illegally when it banned the company’s customers from receiving federal broadband subsidies...
...emerged the Trump appointee had taken dramatic steps to ensure the merger’s success, at one point urging Charlie Ergen, chairman of Dish, by text to use his contacts in the Senate to persuade Ajit Pai, the FCC...
...Rani Habash, an antitrust partner at Dechert who was not involved in the case, said the states might have won were it not for the divestitures to Dish agreed by the justice department and FCC....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on November 8. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat-leaning FCC commissioner, on Monday voiced serious doubts about the merger....
...FCC chief backs Sprint-T-Mobile combo That $26bn merger may finally be happening, although more approvals are still needed....
...Ajit Pai, the chairman of the FCC, had previously said he favoured the deal and said on Friday that he would move to vote on the merger....
...The FCC also defended the deregulation in a statement....
...In a filing to the FCC on Monday, Sprint said its “standalone competitive future is in peril”....
...The companies secured the backing of the FCC chairman with a promise not to increase rates for three years after the merger and a pledge by Sprint to divest Boost Mobile, a prepaid wireless business....
...President Trump weighed in on the FCC’s objection, tweeting that it was “so sad and unfair that the FCC wouldn’t approve the Sinclair Broadcast merger with Tribune”....
...A spokesperson for the FCC declined to comment. The DoJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment and Sprint could not be immediately reached....
...In an argument to the FCC last year, Sinclair and Tribune cited rising competition from tech groups such as Netflix and Google, and wider consolidation in the cable industry, as they made their case for...
...But Ajit Pai, the Republican-leaning chairman of the FCC, isn’t the only man in town calling the shots on this deal....
...Clearance from the FCC is key in getting the merger, which was agreed before AT&T’s takeover of Time Warner was ratified by a US judge last week, is crucial....
...Donald Trump had previously criticised the FCC’s decision to refer the deal for review....
...TV stations can have their licenses revoked for lying to the FCC. Sinclair has denied misleading the agency....
...“The evidence we’ve received suggests that certain station divestitures that have been proposed to the FCC would allow Sinclair to control those stations in practice, even if not in name, in violation of...
...Sinclair said it was “shocked and disappointed” by the FCC statement....
...The FCC alleged the company had violated the Communications Act when it failed to correct these problems....
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