The Federal Communications Commission urged AT&T on Thursday to provide data to show how its propsed merger with T-Mobile would impact employment.
The commission’s Wireless Bureau Chief Rick Kaplan on Thursday fired off a letter to AT&T’s outside Counsel Richard Rosen at the law firm Arnold & Porter asking the company to provide the commission with detailed information.
The commission had sent an informational request to AT&T about the proposed merger late May. On Thursday, Kaplan told Rosen that “AT&T to date has produced almost nothing in response to Question 36.” That question asks AT&T for “all analyses, reports, data or other documents in AT&T’s possession, custody or control that analyze the size and location of AT&T’s workforce both before and as anticipated after the merger,” among other things.
The merger of the two companies would create the country’s largest wireless phone service provider with more than 129 subscribers. AT&T has asid that it needs T-Mobile for the spectrum.
