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Brendan Carr, (202) 418-1733
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For Immediate Release
STATEMENT OF FCC COMMISSIONER AJIT PAI
on Proposal to Create More Loopholes for Abuse of Designated Entity Program
WASHINGTON, June 25, 2015—I am deeply disappointed that Chairman Wheeler is proposing 
yet more loopholes to allow corporate giants to abuse the designated entity program. For instance, those 
benefiting from taxpayer-funded discounts when buying spectrum should use that spectrum for the 
public’s benefit–not just lease most or all of it to large carriers like AT&T and Verizon. Loopholes like 
this might be good for big business and small arbitrageurs, but they certainly aren’t in the interest of the 
American people, and they do nothing to further wireless competition.
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