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Rick Kaplan, chief of the Federal Communication Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, sent a letter to AT&T on Thursday asking the carrier to clarify just how the proposed merger with T-Mobile USA will add jobs in the United States. “Our review of the information currently in our record suggests that AT&T’s responses on this issue remain incomplete,” Kaplan said. The FCC is giving AT&T until October 31st to address fully “all plans, analyses and reports discussing the creation or loss of jobs” if the merger is approved. AT&T must also disclose how many T-Mobile USA jobs will be eliminated and show how the merger will affect employment inside and outside of the United States during the next five years. AT&T CEO Randall L. Stephenson argued earlier this year that the proposed merger would be a “<a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/03/30/att-ceo-t-mobile-acquisition-will-immediately-improve-reliability/">net job grower</a>” in the United States. On August 31st, AT&T <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/31/att-tempts-fcc-promises-to-bring-5000-jobs-back-to-u-s-if-t-mobile-merger-is-approved/">promised to bring 5,000 jobs back to the United States</a> if the merger is approved, which was the same day the <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/31/u-s-government-sues-to-block-att-t-mobile-merger/">U.S. government filed a lawsuit in opposition of the deal</a>. <span id="more-108054"></span><a href="http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-310369A1.pdf">Read</a> [PDF]
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Rick Kaplan, chief of the Federal Communication Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, sent a letter to AT&T on Thursday asking the carrier to clarify just how the proposed merger with T-Mobile USA will add jobs in the United States. “Our review of the information currently in our record suggests that AT&T’s responses on this issue remain incomplete,” Kaplan said. The FCC is giving AT&T until October 31st to address fully “all plans, analyses and reports discussing the creation or loss of jobs” if the merger is approved. AT&T must also disclose how many T-Mobile USA jobs will be eliminated and show how the merger will affect employment inside and outside of the United States during the next five years. AT&T CEO Randall L. Stephenson argued earlier this year that the proposed merger would be a “<a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/03/30/att-ceo-t-mobile-acquisition-will-immediately-improve-reliability/">net job grower</a>” in the United States. On August 31st, AT&T <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/31/att-tempts-fcc-promises-to-bring-5000-jobs-back-to-u-s-if-t-mobile-merger-is-approved/">promised to bring 5,000 jobs back to the United States</a> if the merger is approved, which was the same day the <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/31/u-s-government-sues-to-block-att-t-mobile-merger/">U.S. government filed a lawsuit in opposition of the deal</a>. <span id="more-108054"></span><a href="http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-310369A1.pdf">Read</a> [PDF]
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