AT&T Says It May Avoid FCC Airwaves Auction Over Restriction
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AT&T Inc., the second-largest U.S. wireless carrier, said U.S. rules may prompt it to sit out a spectrum auction designed to raise money for television-station owners and harvest airwaves for smartphones.
Restrictions proposed by the Federal Communications Commission “are complicated and unnecessary” and would favor other companies, Joan Marsh, AT&T’s vice president for federal regulations, said in a filing at the agency today. AT&T would be restricted from bidding in markets covering more than 70 percent of the U.S. population, Marsh said.