Top Of FCC’s 2008 To-Do List: Verizon’s Alltel Acquisition And Clearwire’s Merger With Sprint’s Xohm
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) wants the Federal Communications Commission to act on white spaces, but Chairman Kevin Martin has a couple other priorities lined up for decisions before the end of the year as well: Verizon’s pending acquisition of Alltel (NYSE: AT) and the merger of Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel’s Xohm division with Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR), WSJ reports. But there’s a longer to-do list Martin hopes to tackle before the year’s out that includes issues such as the rates phone companies pay each other to connect calls, forthcoming spectrum auctions and the use vacant TV channels (white spaces) for high-speed wireless services.
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