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So much to choose from! I’ve gotten through the first half of the FCC’s analysis of the AT&T-T-Mobile merger. To my utter lack of surprise, all the things you or I might have intuited about this deal have been found … Continue reading →

They argued over lists and schedules and experts witnesses and limitations placed on adverse witnesses and written versus oral testimony and perhaps the number of coffee breaks–’cause this trial will require plenty of that. I am referring to the pre-trial … Continue reading →

The FCC divides the country up, in terms of wireless spectrum, into CMAs or Cellular Market Areas. In their recent suit against AT&T, the US Department of Justice gauged the effect of a T-Mobile acquisition across the top 100 CMAs, … Continue reading →

Bloomberg reports that the US Department of Justice has filed an anti-trust complaint against the AT&T-T-Mobile merger at the US District Court, District of Columbia.

With everyone on vacation or preparing for vacation, the FCC released letters from our Congressional representatives regarding their feelings on the AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile. None of the opinions express should come as a surprise to anyone following this debate. … Continue reading →

While AT&T may be boasting about the wireless side of the business in its 2Q results, Ma Bell 2.0 is still very dependent on its copper cables. True, wireless revenue has been doing the growing, rising to $14.1 billion over … Continue reading →

New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg announced today an agreement with AT&T to provide free public WiFi service for the next five years in 20 city parks. They’ll soon be coverage in parts of Manhattan’s Central Park, in Battery Park, along … Continue reading →

There may be good arguments in support of AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile, but improved WiFi access in the Grand Canyon is not one of them. But that’s the claim that the Grand Canyon Hotel Operators Association makes in its comment … Continue reading →

I’m going to review this massive petition to denial filing—redacted, though, for public viewing—over this short holiday week. Not surprisingly, Sprint Nextel is not happy with AT&T’s bid to swallow T-Mobile. With the word duopoloy (according to my PDF search) … Continue reading →

Economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin has filed his $.02 in the FCC’s AT&T/T-Mobile docket. According to Eakin, who was John McCain’s economic adviser on the campaign trail: If this merger is approved by the FCC and the Federal Trade Commission, no monopoly … Continue reading →