"As president-elect, one of Obama's first tech-related decisions has been to select the Recording Industry Association of America's favorite lawyer [Tom Perrelli] to be the third in command at the Justice Department. And Obama's pick as deputy attorney general, the second most senior position, is the lawyer who oversaw the defense of the Copyright Term Extension Act--the same law t...

AT&T Mobility Fulfills Regulatory Requirements from Acquisition of Dobson Communications Corporation AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) announced that AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets has finalized its swap of wireless assets with Verizon Wireless, following regulatory approval from the FCC and Department of Justice. Under the terms of the agreement, AT&T Mobility acquired some former Rural Cellular

The Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice have approved wireless asset swaps between AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless.

AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless finalized their wireless asset swap, which was first announced last December, after getting regulatory approval from both the FCC and the U.S. Department of Justice. The deal, which gained approval from the Federal Trade Commission in March, gives AT&T some former Rural Cellular licenses and network assets in the Burlington, Vt., metro area as wel...

AT&T announced today that they have finalized a swap of wireless assets with Verizon Wireless, following regulatory approval from the FCC and Department of Justice. The asset swap extends AT&T Mobility’s coverage in New York, Vermont, Washington State and Kentucky while Verizon got cash and some AT&T frequencies Under the terms of the agreement, AT&T Mobility

It's already made it past the Department of Justice and the FCC after making a few concessions, and Verizon has now cleared the last major hurdle blocking its acquisition of Alltel, with the Federal Trade Commission today giving the deal its all-important stamp of approval. Unlike the other regulatory agencies, the FTC apparently didn't require that Verizon make any further concessions, ...

A unit of LG Electronics, the South Korean-based multinational giant with a major wireless handset business, and other Asian manufacturers agreed to pay $585 million in fines and plead guilty in connection with the Department of Justice and FBI’s...

// VerAlltel? Allizon? Veritel? to become largest carrier in North America The FCC has approved Verizon’s $28 billion purchase of Alltel, provided they honor Alltel’s existing roaming agreements for the next 4 years. The Department of Justice also asked that Verizon divest itself of 22 states to maintain the competitive landscape in about 100 local markets.

Verizon announced its intention to purchase Alltel this summer and now they finally can. The Department of Justice has approved the transaction last week and the FCC has just approved it too. Verizon will pay $5.9 billion and it will assume Alltel’s debt of $22.2 billion. That’s a $28.1 billion deal, but who’s counting? Besides the

WASHINGTON, D.C.--After a long delayed Election Day meeting, the FCC approved Verizon Wireless's $28.1 billion acquisition of Alltel, making it the largest wireless carrier in the U.S., with a combined 83.8 million subscribers. The U.S. Department of Justice approved  the acquisition last week on the condition that Verizon divest 100 markets in 22 states where the companies overlapp...