FCC Asks AT&T for Details on Plans to Halt Fiber Expansion

When Randall L. Stephenson, AT&T‘s chairman and chief executive, said that the company would halt some of its plans for fiber-optic expansion until federal regulators decided on a net neutrality policy, at least one important party was listening: the Federal Communications Commission. On Nov 14, the FCC sent a letter to AT&T asking for details and documentation of what fiber projects would be halted. The FCC official who signed the letter, Jamillia Ferris, oversees a significant part of the agency’s review of AT&T’s proposed $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV, which the FCC must approve for the deal to go forward.