AT&T CEO: No DirecTV merger call this week

The CEO of AT&T, Randall Stephenson, said that he doesn’t expect the Federal Communications Commission to announce a decision on the company’s merger with DirecTV the week of May 18. "What’s happened right now as you know is there was a stay request for the Title II rules that was filed last week by the industry and the judge put a pretty tight time horizon on the FCC to respond to that so that’s probably going to take a lot of their attention over the next week or two,” said Stephenson, noting that the deadline for the FCC to respond to the stay request for the network neutrality rules was on May 15. "So there’s not going to be a lot done over the next week on anything other than Title II,” he said.