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Consolation prizewinning
Perhaps the FCC felt a little remorse for the complete trashing it gave AT&T's merging application last month, because this week it approved the company's $1.9 billion spectrum gain from Qualcom . It's a relatively small gain compared to the potential spectrum better it would have gained from the T-Mobile deal, but every little bit will help in playing corral-up to Verizon.
What's good for the goose...
The curtain may have dropped on AT&T's regulatory soap opera, but it could merely be lifting on a new episode starring Verizon and its newest best-friends-forever -- and I do humble forever . The wireless carrier's latest cronies are cable companies Comcast , Together Warner Cable , and Bright House Networks.
Verizon bought $3.6 billion importance of unused spectrum from those companies, giving it a large coverage sway over AT&T in the largest markets. But what may interfere with Verizon's plans are the reselling provisions in the understanding. The cable companies will have the right to resell Verizon's wireless services, and Verizon will have the same rights in go for to the cable companies' voice and broadband services. This has given thrive to a DOJ investigation of the proposal .
Source: Motley Fool