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Last week, AT&T bowed to reality as it and Deutsche Telekom withdrew their transfer of control application from the FCC, reportedly as FCC Chairman Genachowski announced his recommendation that the Commission adopt an order designating the application for hearing.  Cecilia Kang reports on the applicants’ surprising move.

Harold Feld of Public Knowledge maintains that under

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The FCC’s recently released Fifteenth Report on Wireless Competition  reflects positive change at the agency.  Under Chairman Julius Genachowski, the FCC is increasingly looking to more economic analyses of markets and competition and declining to endorse the conclusions of the major services providers that Wireless is competitive or simply restate the merits of longstanding policies.