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AT&T Senior Vice President Bob Quinn urged the FCC in a meeting Thursday with FCC Chief ofnStaff Michele Ellison and Sarah Whitesell, an aide to acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn not to movenforward on 700 MHz interoperability rules. “During the meeting, we emphasized that a regulation forcing AT&T to offer its customers only LTE devices that incorporate Band 12 components that AT&T does notnwant, cannot use, and that would reduce the quality of AT&T’s LTE services, would harm consumers andncompetition and would have no public interest benefits,” said an ex parte filing on the meeting (http:/bit.ly/11RqwQh). “The Commission should instead focus on eliminating the interference concerns thatnhave made Band 12 deployments impractical in much of the country.” Quinn questioned the legality of anmandate, according to the filing: “Such a mandate would cause substantial consumer harms, because itnwould force AT&T to include unnecessary components in all of its devices that would cause reduced coverage,nlower average throughput, reduced battery life, and form factor compromises that AT&T’s competitorsnwould not face. Indeed, the mandate would necessitate a redesign of all of AT&T’s LTE devices,nwhich would likely result in fewer overall choices for AT&T’s customers.”