AT&T, DirecTV Representatives Discuss Deal With FCC Officials
AT&T and DirecTV officials told FCC officials that their proposed transaction would provide benefits to tens of millions of consumers, according to an ex parte filing posted Monday in docket 14-90 about a conference call Friday. They cited the voluntary…
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commitments they had previously made to provide the commission with further assurances the deal would be in the public interest, the filing said. In response to a question after the FCC's Thursday meeting, Chairman Tom Wheeler said the agency was trying to resolve the AT&T/DirecTV proceeding "with dispatch" but wouldn't elaborate. The FCC's nonbinding 180-day shot clock for its AT&T/DirecTV review remains stopped on Day 170.