Cicconi (pictured), who serves as AT&T's senior executive vice president for external and legislative affairs, wrote for AT&T's Public Policy blog today that again attacked the FCC for its role in shooting down the failed $39 billion merger between AT&T and T-Mobile. But this time, Cicconi said that the death of the proposed merger was directly responsible for T-Mobile's announcement this week that it planned on closing seven call centers and laying off 1,900 workers.

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"Rarely are a regulatory agency's predictive judgments proven so wrong so fast," he said. "But for the government's decision, centers now being closed would be staying open, workers now facing layoffs would have job guarantees, and communities facing turmoil would have . Only a few months later, the truth of who was right is sadly obvious."

The FCC last year released projecting that there would be significant layoffs if AT&T and T-Mobile merged, as AT&T would eliminate redundant positions. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski also objected to the proposed merger's projected impact on competition in the wireless industry, as it would have left Verizon and AT&T with a in the United States, according to an analysis by Consumer Reports.