Tag Archives: t-mobile
Best Bits From the FCC Report on AT&T Merger
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
US vs. AT&T: Pre-Trial Paper Wars
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
US v. AT&T!
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.
Back at the FCC: Congress Responds to AT&T Merger
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
Why Else Would You Go to the Grand Canyon?
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
Douglas Holtz-Eakin: AT&T Is Not a Monopoly
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
AT&T Files its Paperwork
You can read excerpts from AT&T filing to the FCC on their website. AT&T claims with the purchase of T-Mobile there’ll be fewer dropped and blocked calls, consumers will be empowered to participate more fully in our broadband society, and … Continue reading
FCC: Let AT&T, T-Mobile Games Begin
Last week the FCC made it official: they’ve opened a new docket—that would be 11-65—for the “proposed transfer of control of T-Mobile USA, Inc. and its subsidiaries from Deutsche Telekom AG to AT&T Inc.” Let the ex-parte comments and presentations … Continue reading
T-Mobile continues to seek an alternative to subsidizing its two largest competitors, but today, AT&T and Verizon continue to supply the majority of T-Mobile’s backhaul services.
