In the wake of AT&T’s earlier claims that the carrier’s proposed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA would result in the creation of between 55,000 and 96,000 jobs, the officials at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have asked AT&T to submit further details to substantiate the jobs claims.

In a Thursday letter to AT&T, Rick Kaplan - the wireless bureau head at FCC – sought the carrier’s response to the commission’s May request for more information about its jobs claims in connection with its merger with T-Mobile.

Kaplan said in the letter that AT&T "has produced almost nothing" in response to the FCC's previous inquiry about jobs information; and gave the carrier an October 31 deadline for providing more details to support its claims.

The FCC is pressing AT&T for the details because the carrier had earlier said in defense of the T-Mobile merger that the transaction holds the potential to bring back 5,000 overseas jobs to the US, but has thus far not given any detailed information about its claimed a net increase in US jobs.

Seeking all data pertaining to the "size and location" of AT&T's current workforce as well as the increase in the job numbers after the planned merger comes through, Kaplan said that the FCC’s review of the information that it currently has in its record suggests that “AT&T's response on this issue remain incomplete.”