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| Released: November 30, 1999 | Comments Due: December 14, 1999 Replies Due: December 21, 1999 | Order June 5, 2000 | . |
"On June 5, 2000, the Federal Communications Commission gave a conditioned approval to the transfer of control of licenses and authorizations from MediaOne to AT&T. The FCC ordered AT&T within six months of completion of the merger to inform the Commission what interests it will divest to come into compliance with the FCC's horizontal ownership rule. This rule prohibits a single cable company from serving more than 30% of the nation's multichannel video programming distribution subscribers, who are served primarily by cable television and direct broadcast satellite services. The FCC concluded that the merged firm without divestitures would have served 41.8% of the nation's MVPD subscribers. For further details: [Order: MS Word | Text | News Release ]"
forum: [ Public Notice: MSWord | Text ] You can listen to the public forum at the following link: http://www.fcc.gov/realaudio/. In addition, the following are the submitted versions of testimony from the participants. (Please also note that these documents were scanned into the computer from hardcopies, and, as a result, may contain errors.) All documents are Adobe Acrobat format: [ AT&T ] |
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- Related Documents
- Competitive Impact Statement of the US Department of Justice (May 25, 2000), United States v. AT&T Corp., No Civ. A. 1:00CV01176 RLC, 2000 WL 1752108 (DDC Sept. 27, 2000), available at http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f4800/4842.pdf
- 7/23/99 Public Notice: [WordPerfect | Text]
- 8/6/99 Protective Order: [WordPerfect | Text]
- 8/9/99 Request for Documents: [MSWord | Text]
- 9/10/99 Letter Concerning Further Negotiations for Documents with AT&T: [MSWord | Text]
- 9/10/99 Letter Concerning Further Negotiations for Documents with MediaOne: [MSWord | Text]
- 9/15/99 Letter From AT&T to the FCC, a Narrative Description of Their Document Production: [MSWord | Text]
- 9/23/99 Letter From AT&T to the FCC, a Narrative Description of Their Document Production: [MSWord | Text]
- 10/26/99 Letter Concerning AT&T's Compliance With the FCC's Horizontal Ownership and Attribution Rules: [MSWord | Text]
- 11/3/99 Request for Documents: [ Cover Letter: MSWord | Text | Document Request: MSWord | Text]
- 11/11/99 Letter From AT&T to GTE Requesting Data From GTE's Filing: [MSWord | Text]
- 11/17/99 Letter From GTE to AT&T Responding to AT&T's Request: [MSWord | Text]
- 11/18/99 Letter From AT&T to the FCC Concerning the Timing of Their Response to Our Horizontal Ownership and Attribution Rules: [MSWord | Text]
- 11/22/99 Letter From AT&T to the FCC, a Partial Response to the Request for Documents of 11/3/99: [MSWord | Text]
- 11/24/99 Letter From AT&T to the FCC, Further Response to the Request for Documents of 11/3/99: [MSWord | Text]
- 11/24/99 Letter and Ex Parte Comments From AT&T Regarding Compliance With Our Horizontal Ownership and Attribution Rules: [ Cover Letter: MSWord | Text | Ex Parte Comments: MSWord | Text] (Note: Exhibits to the Ex Parte Comments were not provided electronically. They can be obtained from ITS (202-857-3800), ECFS, and the Reference Room.)
- 11/24/99 Letter from Deborah A. Lathen, Chief, Cable Services Bureau to Andrew J. Schwartzman, President and CEO, Media Access Project: [ MSWord | Text ]
- 11/29/99 Letter From AT&T to the FCC Concerning Filing of Documents Under Seal: [MSWord | Text]
- 11/30/99 Public Notice Regarding AT&T's Showing Concerning FCC Horizontal Ownership and Attribution Rules: [MSWord | Text | List of Pleadings Filed in Response to the Public Notice]
- 11/30/99 Letter From AT&T to the FCC Concerning Filing of Documents Under Seal: [MSWord | Text]
- 12/2/99 Letter From AT&T to the FCC, a Partial Response to the Request for Documents of 11/3/99: [MSWord | Text]
- 12/2/99 Letter From AT&T to the FCC Concerning an Ex Parte Filing: [MSWord | Text]
- 12/2/99 Letter From AT&T to the FCC: An Ex Parte Filing Concerning the Century Transaction: [MSWord | Text]
- 12/6/99 Letter From AT&T to the FCC Concerning Filing of Documents Under Seal: [MSWord | Text]
- 12/7/99 Letter From AT&T, Mindspring, and the Chairman, FCC Local & State Government Advisory Committee to Chairman Kennard: [ Cover Letter: MSWord | Text | Letter: MSWord | Text]
- 12/7/99 Letter From AT&T to the FCC Concerning Filing of Documents Under Seal: [MSWord | Text]
- 12/10/99 Letter From AT&T to the FCC Concerning Filing of Documents Under Seal: [MSWord | Text]
- 12/10/99 Letter From AT&T to the FCC Identifying Filed Documents: [MSWord | Text]
- 12/13/99 Letter From AT&T to the FCC Concerning Filing of Documents Under Seal: [MSWord | Text]
- 12/22/99 Request for Documents: [ Cover Letter: MSWord | Text | Document Request: MSWord | Text]
- 1/13/00 Letter From AT&T to the FCC in Response to the Questions of 12/22/99: [MSWord | Text]
- 1/13/00 Order Establishing Sur-Reply Comment Period and Extending the Period for Oral Ex Parte Meetings: [MSWord| Text]
- 1/28/00 Cable Services Bureau to Hold Public Forum on Proposal of AT&T Corporation and MediaOne Group, Inc. to Transfer Control of Licenses: [MSWord | Text]
- 2/14/00 Letter from Deborah A. Lathen, Chief, Cable Services Bureau to Andrew J. Schwartzman, President and CEO, Media Access Project: [ MSWord | Text ]
- 2/18/00 Letter From AT&T to the FCC: An Ex Parte Filing Concerning the Broadband Market: [MSWord | Text]
- 2/22/00 Letter from AT&T to Deborah A. Lathen, Chief, Cable Services Bureau Concerning Public Interest Benefits: [ MSWord | Text ]
- 3/17/00 Letter From AT&T in Response to CSB Requests for Information on Teleport Communications Group, Viewer's Choice, and Local Franchising Authority Actions: [MSWord | Text]
- 3/17/00 Letter From AT&T Concerning Compliance With Channel Occupancy Rules: [MSWord | Text]
- 3/17/00 Letter From AT&T Updating Subscribership Ownership Information: [MSWord | Text]
- 3/24/00 Letter From MediaOne Concerning the Timing of the Sale of Its Interest in Time Warner Telecom Inc.: [ Cover Letter: MSWord | Text | Letter: MSWord | Text]
- 3/29/00 Letter From AT&T to the FCC, Describing the Cable Telephony Penetration Chart that Was Included in AT&T's letter to Deborah Lathen, Dated February 22, 2000: [MSWord | Text]
- 4/05/00 Letter from Cable Services Bureau to AT&T and MediaOne requesting information regarding subscriber count and Time Warner Entertainment Limited Partnership Agreement.: [MSWord | Text]
- 4/07/00 Letter From AT&T to the FCC, Revised Subscriber Certification Letter: [MSWord | Text]
- 4/12/00 Letter From AT&T to the FCC, Further Explanation of the Cable Telephony Penetration Chart that Was Included in AT&T's Letter to Deborah Lathen, Dated February 22, 2000: [MSWord | Text]
- 4/18/00 Letter From AT&T to the FCC Concerning Proposed Safeguards Relating to Video Programming: [MSWord | Text]
- 5/9/00 Letter From AT&T Regarding Closing of Time Warner Telecom Transaction: [ Cover Letter: MSWord | Text | Letter: MSWord | Text]
- 5/24/00 Letter From AT&T to the FCC Updating Their Telephony Subscriber Numbers: [MSWord | Text]
- 5/25/00 Letter From MediaOne to the FCC Updating Their Telephony Deployment: [MSWord | Text]
- 6/2/00 Letter From AT&T to the FCC Concerning Approval of License Transfers by Local Franchising Authorities: [MSWord | Text]
- FCC RELEASES ORDER DENYING PETITION TO RECONSIDER APPROVAL OF AT&T AND MEDIAONE MERGER; ACTION DOES NOT ADDRESS ISSUES ON REMAND FROM APPEALS COURT CASE. News Release CSB. Contact News Media Contact: Michelle Russo 202-418-2358 or Cable Services Bureau Contact: William Johnson or Royce Sherlock 202-418-7200, FCC 3/14/01
- Petition for reconsidertion of Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America and Media Access Project filed July 5, 2000 (Petition could not be found online)
- Comments
- Mark Lemley and Larry Lessig's Filing opposing the merger.
- Prof Lessig's webpage.
- Ex Parte Supplemental Declaration of Ordover and Willig
- Open Net Coalition White Paper: Frequently Asked Questions about AT&T's Acquisition of MediaOne, Open Access, and the Public Interest at 23 (Sept 17, 1999).
- Ex Parte of Prof James Speta
- MAP Comments
- Consumer Union, Who Do You Trust? AOL And AT&T .When They Challenge The Cable Monopoly or AOL and AT&T .. When They Become The Cable Monopoly?
- News [Recent News]
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- AT&T's Acquisition of MediaOne Wins Approval by FCC NYT 6/6
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- DOJ: AT&T must sell cable modem service to merge C|NET 5/31
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- Report: FCC delays AT&T-MediaOne merger C|NET 5/19
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- AT&T Seeks To Appease FCC In MediaOne Cable Acquisition Newsbytes 4/21
- AT&T dodges FCC request for subscriber count C|NET 4/7
- Cyberspace Scholar [Lessing] Joins Open-Cable Access Debate 12/21/99
- Academic arrows fly in open access debate C|NET 12/21/99
