AT&T, DirecTV: FCC Should Not Extend Comment Deadline

Some critics of the proposed AT&T-DirecTV merger have asked the Federal Communications Commission for more time to comment on -- or attempt to block -- the deal, but the companies say no way because the FCC has an obligation to review the deal "as expeditiously as possible," and that nothing offered up by Public Knowledge and the Community Broadband Networks Initiative warrants any delay.

Public Knowledge sought the extension, citing four related proceedings – including the review of the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger -- with comments due in August and September PK also said the extension was unlikely to delay the proceeding "significantly."