{"id":978773,"date":"2025-12-06T07:26:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978773"},"modified":"2025-12-06T07:35:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:05:42","slug":"fcc-approves-att-1-billion-purchase-of-spectrum-from-uscellular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/06\/fcc-approves-att-1-billion-purchase-of-spectrum-from-uscellular\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC approves AT&amp;T $1 billion purchase of spectrum from UScellular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday it has approved AT&amp;T&#8217;s deal to buy some wireless spectrum licenses from UScellular in a $1.02 billion deal after the Texas-based carrier committed to end DEI programs. <\/p>\n<p>The FCC has been requiring telecom carriers to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs as a condition of approving transactions since President Donald Trump returned to office in January. The FCC said the deal will result in &#8220;enhancing AT&amp;T&#8217;s network coverage, capacity and performance resulting in a better customer experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday it has approved AT&amp;T&#8217;s deal to buy some wireless spectrum licenses from UScellular in a $1.02 billion deal after the Texas-based carrier committed to end DEI programs. The FCC has been requiring telecom carriers to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs as a condition of approving transactions since President Donald Trump returned to office in January. The FCC said the deal will result in &#8220;enhancing AT&amp;T&#8217;s network coverage, capacity and performance resulting in a better customer experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}