The FCC should waive its “former defaulter rule”...

The FCC should waive its “former defaulter rule” and clarify that post-auction payments will be due in early 2015, not in 2014, as it finalizes rules for the AWS-3 auction, said AT&T Vice President Joan Marsh in a meeting with Deputy Wireless Bureau Chief John Leibovitz, said a filing posted by the FCC Monday in docket 14-78 (http://bit.ly/1iO27Uw). All of Marsh’s comments were in keeping with reply comments AT&T filed on the auction rules (http://bit.ly/1pJxHmt), AT&T said. The former defaulter rule requires companies to make larger upfront payments for licenses if they ever defaulted on a license or were delinquent on a debt owed to a federal agency (CD June 3 p1).