FCC chief doesn’t plan to review AT&T–Time Warner merger
February 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
FCC chairman Ajit Pai said today that he doesn’t expect the commission to review AT&T’s purchase of Time Warner, clearing the way for the Justice Department to very likely approve the deal.
Pai has long been critical of the FCC putting conditions on mergers and even signaled in the past that he’d be okay with a mega-merger like the one proposed between Comcast and Time Warner Cable (which is a different company than Time Warner) in 2014, so today’s announcement isn’t altogether surprising.
AT&T said from the start of this proceeding that it didn’t expect the FCC to review the transaction, because there would be no transfer of wireless licenses (or Time Warner could sell…
