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  "description": "Coalition indicates that its not finished fighting UScellular-T-Mobile transaction, closed or not.",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-08-13T16:30:35.000Z",
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    "_August 7 letter_",
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    "Join the Community!",
    "_announced_",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, August 13, 2025 – A coalition of broadband groups again urged the Federal Communications Commission to combine its review of three separate transactions involving the UScellular.\n\nIn an _August 7 letter_, the Rural Wireless Association, New America’s Open Technology Institute, Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, and Communications Workers of America, argued that three separate deals splitting UScellular’s assets were “interdependent and must be evaluated together” to fully assess their combined effects on competition, rural service, consumer welfare, labor markets, and the broader public interest.\n\nThe coalition letter, led by **Carri Bennet** , **Nell Geiser** , **Michael Calabrese** , and **Andrew Jay Schwartzman** , again urged the full FCC commission to review the UScellular transactions, rather than delegate that authority to its staff.\n\n\n\n_****There's a whole community behind your FREE membership...****_\n\n Join the Community! \n\nT-Mobile _announced_ in May 2024 that it had agreed to acquire UScellular's wireless operations and nearly a third of its spectrum for $4.4 billion. That announcement was soon followed by announcements _from Verizon_ and _AT &T_ that they would each purchase $1 billion of UScellular’s spectrum.\n\nAll three deals required approval from the FCC before they could be finalized, and all three _were opposed_ by the _advocacy groups_ calling for the consolidated review. The FCC _approved_ T-Mobile’s purchase of UScellular in July, and that _deal closed_ in August. The FCC has not ruled on AT&T or Verizon’s pending transactions with UScellular.\n\nThe approval and closure of the T-Mobile/UScellular deal has not stopped the advocacy groups from fighting against it. Shortly after the deal was approved by the FCC, RWA _vowed to file_ an internal appeal challenging the decision.\n\nOn August 1, the same day the T-Mobile/UScellular deal closed, RWA _filed a petition_ with the FCC reiterating its opposition to the deal, and noting that “as long as such [Applications for Review] remain pending and until after all appeals are resolved, approval of the T-Mobile/UScellular transaction is not final.”\n\nThe Thursday request from the coalition mirrors a _similar petition_ they brought, in conjunction with Public Knowledge, before the FCC in May. That petition argued that consolidated review was necessary because “viewed collectively, the three transactions effectuate a scheme that would likely violate the antitrust laws were it subject to them.”",
  "title": "Coalition Renews Call for FCC to Consolidate Review of UScellular Deals",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-11T05:47:36.994Z"
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