Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
May 19, 2010
Via First Class mail and E-Mail
Michael Samsock
Verizon Wireless
1300 I Street, N.W., Suite 400 West
Washington, D.C. 20005
Willliam R. Drexel
AT&T Inc.
1010 N. St. Mary’s, Room 14T
San Antonio, TX 78215
RE: Applications of Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. For Consent 
To Assign or Transfer Control of Licenses and Authorizations and Request for 
Declaratory Ruling on Foreign Ownership (WT Docket No. 09-121)
Requests for Extension of Time To Respond
Dear Messrs. Samsock and Drexel:
On November 19, 2009, pursuant to Section 308(b) of the Communications Act,1 the Commission 
requested a number of documents and additional information from the Applicants by December 3, 2009 
(“Information Request”).2 On November 19, 2009, the Commission also released a protective order to 
ensure that any confidential or proprietary documents submitted to the Commission would be adequately 
protected from public disclosure and announcing the process by which interested parties could gain access 
to confidential information filed in the record.3 On December 1, 2009, Verizon Wireless requested an 
extension of time of sixty days until February 1, 2009 to respond to the Information Request.4 On 
January 25, 2010, Verizon Wireless requested a further extension of time to respond until April 2, 2010.5  
On March 9, 2010, the Applicants requested a second protective order to provide additional protection to 
those documents and information contained in the Applicants’ responses to the Information Request that 
  
1 47 U.S.C. § 308(b).
2 Letter from Ruth Milkman, Chief, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, 
to Michael Samsock, Verizon Wireless, and William R. Drexel, AT&T, Inc. (Nov. 19, 2009) (“Information 
Request”).
3 Applications of Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless and AT&T For Consent To Assign or Transfer Control 
of Licenses and Authorizations and Request for Declaratory Ruling on Foreign Ownership, WT Docket No. 09-121, 
Protective Order, 24 FCC Rcd. 13869 (WTB 2009).
4 Letter from Nancy J. Victory, Wiley Rein, LLP, counsel for Verizon Wireless, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, 
Federal Communications Commission (Dec. 1, 2009).
5 Letter from Nancy J. Victory, Wiley Rein, LLP, counsel for Verizon Wireless, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, 
Federal Communications Commission (Jan. 25, 2010).
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contain sensitive business data.6 On April 2, 2010, Verizon Wireless requested a third extension of time 
to respond to the Information Request until three business days following the Commission’s grant of the 
Applicants’ request for a second protective order.7
We hereby grant Verizon Wireless’s request for an extension of time to respond to the 
Information Request no later than three business days following the Bureau’s grant of the Applicants’ 
request for a second protective order.  The Second Protective Order is being adopted and released 
concurrently with this letter.
Due to the length of the granted extension of time for the Applicants to respond to the 
Information Request, we are temporarily stopping the informal 180-day review clock for this proceeding
from the time the response to the Information Request was due on December 3, 2009 until the Applicants 
have submitted their responses to the Information Request.
If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact Kathy Harris, Wireless 
Telecommunications Bureau, at 202-418-0609.
Sincerely,
Ruth Milkman
Chief, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
cc: Nancy J. Victory, Wiley Rein LLP
Maureen R. Jeffreys, Arnold & Porter, LLP
  
6 Letter from Nancy J. Victory, Wiley Rein, LLP, counsel for Verizon Wireless, and Maureen R. Jeffreys, Arnold & 
Porter, LLP, counsel for AT&T Inc., to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (Mar. 
9, 2010).
7 Letter from Nancy J. Victory, Wiley Rein, LLP, counsel for Verizon Wireless, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, 
Federal Communications Commission (Apr. 2, 2010).