Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
August 24, 2011
Via First Class Mail and E-mail
Richard L. Rosen, Esquire
Arnold & Porter, LLP
12th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004
Re: Applications of AT&T Inc. and Deutsche Telekom AG for Consent to Assign or
Transfer Control of License and Authorizations, WTB Docket No. 11-65
Dear Mr. Rosen:
Thank you for your August 8th letter providing s summary of our August 4th meeting on
s LTE deployment plans as they relate to the above-referenced transaction. I write to request
further information regarding two issues discussed at that meeting.
First, your letter states that [Begin Highly Confidential Information]
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Second, your letter reiterates AT&T's statement that "the transaction changes the calculus for
LTE deployment in important respects."6 Specifically, we understand that AT&T's senior management
concluded the transaction would improve the likely return on the additional LTE deployment to create a
business case for this deployment where one would not exist absent the transaction. At our August
meeting, Commission staff requested any documents related to this statement, including any estimates of
transaction-related changes in cost, revenue, andlor profitability associated with additional LTE
deployment. Although AT&T has stated that it has not quantified the transaction-related changes in the
business case for extending its LTE footprint, we ask that you supplement your filing with any documents
or analyses explaining why the changes in cost, revenue, and/or profitability are likely to be large enough
to change the overall business case for the additional deployment.
Since this letter requests narrow categories of documents, our request is not limited to any
designated custodians or to documents that reached a certain level in the company's hierarchy. Your
responses should otherwise comply with the instructions accompanying the Information Requests dated
May 27, 2011. To the extent your response identifies previously submitted documents, please identify
them by Bates number. To the extent your response includes documents not previously submitted to the
Commission, please identify them in metadata as responsive to 'Letter of Aug. 24' rather than a
numbered request. We thank you for your timely cooperation. Please do not hesitate to contact me
should you have any questions regarding these requests.
Sincerely,
V\OA
Renata Hesse
Senior Counsel to the Chairman for Transactions
6 AT&T Letter at 4.