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ATH to Buy American Samoa Telco Bluesky

Being taken over by Amalgamated Telecom will give American Samoa telco/underwater cable company Bluesky and its affiliates more financial and managerial resources, and would have no anticompetitive effects because ATH provides no telecom services in American Samoa now, Fiji-based telco…

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ATH said in an FCC International Bureau filing Tuesday on the public interest benefits of the proposed deal. ATH said the transaction would require transfer of Communications Act Section 214 authorizations, commercial mobile radio service licenses, and common carrier and non-common carrier Bluesky earth station licenses, plus transfer of control of the cable landing license associated with Bluesky affiliate American Samoa-Hawaii Cable.