AT&T And Sprint Seek FCC Consent To The Assignment Of WCS Licenses

New Cingular Wireless PCS, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of AT&T, and Unrestricted Subsidiary Funding Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sprint, and together with AT&T have filed an application pursuant to section 310(d) of the Communications Act of 1934, seeking to assign 19 A and B Block Wireless Communications Service (WCS) licenses to AT&T from Sprint.

The proposed transaction involves only the assignment of spectrum; no subscribers would be transferred. AT&T states that the proposed license assignments would facilitate the transition of WCS spectrum to mobile broadband use and allow AT&T to make more efficient use of spectrum to provide new and better services to customers.

Preliminary review indicates that, as a result of the instant transaction, AT&T would be assigned 10 to 20 megahertz of WCS A and B Block spectrum in 713 counties in all or parts of 153 Cellular Market Areas across parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Post-transaction, AT&T would hold 36 to 165 megahertz of spectrum in total in these 713 counties.