Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 June 26, 2012 Via Electronic Mail Michael Samsock Cellco Partnership dba Verizon Wireless 1300 I Street, NW Suite 400 Washington, DC 20005 David Don SpectrumCo, LLC 300 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Suite 700 Washington, DC 20001-2030 Lynn Charytan Vice President, Legal Regulatory Affairs and Senior Deputy General Counsel Comcast Corporation 300 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Suite 700 Washington, DC 20001-2030 Steven Teplitz Senior Vice President, Government Affairs Time Warner Cable Inc. 901 F Street, N.W. Suite 800 Washington, DC 20004 Cody Harrison Sabin, Bermant & Gould LLP Bright House Networks, LLC Four Times Square New York, NY 10036 Jennifer Hightower Cox TMI Wireless, LLC 1400 Lake Heam Drive Atlanta, GA 30319 Re: Applications of Cellco Partnership d/b/a/ Verizon Wireless, SpectrumCo, LLC, and Cox TMI Wireless, LLC for Consent to Assign Wireless Licenses, WT Docket No. 12-4 Dear Ms. Charytan, Mr. Don, Mr. Harrison, Ms. Hightower, Mr. Samsock, and Mr. Teplitz: On June 25, 2012, Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless (“Verizon Wireless”) and T-Mobile License LLC (“T-Mobile”) filed five applications requesting Commission approval for the full and partial assignments of certain AWS-1 licenses by and between Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile (“T-Mobile/Verizon Wireless Applications”). 1 The licenses that Verizon Wireless would assign to T-Mobile include 47 licenses (covering all or portions of 98 CMAs) that Verizon Wireless has proposed to acquire from SpectrumCo, LLC (“SpectrumCo”) and Cox TMI Wireless, LLC (“Cox”) in this docket, as well as from Leap Wireless International Inc. (“Leap Wireless”). 2 T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless state that assignments proposed in the T- 1 T-Mobile/Verizon Wireless License Application, File No. 0005272585. See also Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile License LLC Seek FCC Consent to the Assignment of Advanced Wireless Service Licenses, WT Docket No. 12-175, DA 12-999 (rel. June 26, 2012). 2 See Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless, SpectrumCo, LLC and Cox TMI Wireless, LLC Seek FCC Consent to Assignment of AWS-1 Licenses, WT Docket No. 12-4, Public Notice, 27 FCC Rcd 360 (Jan. 19, 2012); Verizon Mobile/Verizon Wireless Applications are contingent upon regulatory approval of these other pending applications. 3 Given the express connection between the T-Mobile/Verizon Wireless Applications and the Verizon - SpectrumCo and Verizon Wireless - Cox Applications pending in WT Docket No. 12-4, the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau issued a Public Notice today establishing a 14- day period in which interested parties can comment on the impact of the T-Mobile/Verizon Wireless Applications on the transactions in this docket. 4 In light of this comment period, we are stopping for 14 days the Commission's informal 180-day clock for the proposed Verizon Wireless - SpectrumCo and Verizon Wireless - Cox transactions in WT Docket No. 12-4, effective today and restarting on July 10, 2012, which will be Day 138. Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions concerning the foregoing. Sincerely, Rick Kaplan Senior Counsel to the Chairman for Transactions CC: John T. Scott, III, Verizon Wireless Michael G. Jones, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Michael H. Hammer, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Matthew Brill, Latham & Watkins LLP Daniel Brenner, Hogan Lovells US LLP Christina H. Burrow, Dow Lohnes PLLC Wireless and Leap Wireless Seek FCC Consent to the Exchange of Lower 700 MHz Band A Block, AWS-1, and Personal Communications Service Licenses, Public Notice, 26 FCC Rcd 16810 (Dec. 14, 2011). 3 T-Mobile/Verizon Wireless Applications, File No. 0005272585, Public Interest Statement at 2 (June. 25, 2012). 4 See Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Seeks Comment on the Impact on the Verizon Wireless-SpectrumCo and Verizon Wireless-Cox Transactions of the Applications of Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile to Assign AWS-1 Licenses, WT Docket No. 12-4, DA 12-998 (rel. June 26, 2012).