After putting AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Cellular South CEOs under oath, Senators on the Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust asked tough questions about what the deal would really mean for the prices and service available to all mobile phone and Internet customers. Chairman Kohl admonished AT&T’s CEO as a fellow businessman not to pretend the merger…
The more we dig into AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile, the worse the deal looks for all parties. As we’ve written before (here, here, here, and here) if the merger is consummated consumers stand to lose out. Prices for mobile voice and broadband Internet will rise once T-Mobile, the low-priced, “mavericky” alternative to AT&T and Verizon is absorbed into the Death Star.…
In 2000, the World Intellectual Property Organization designated today, April 26, as World Intellectual Property Day, as it is the date on which the 1970 WIPO Convention entering into force. This date serves as an occasion to raise awareness about and celebrate intellectual property. Choosing the date of the establishment of an inter-governmental bureaucracy as the…
AT&T has filed FCC applications to acquire another competitor. The FCC must decide whether the proposed license transfers are in the public interest . The FCC has already found deficiencies in competition among nationwide wireless carriers in its latest report. Recent Sprint deals with cash-poor Clearwire and spectrum starved non-operational start-up Lightsquared hardly alter the…
AT&T has filed FCC applications to acquire another competitor. The FCC must decide whether the proposed license transfers are in the public interest . The FCC has already found deficiencies in competition among nationwide wireless carriers in its latest report. Recent Sprint deals with cash-poor Clearwire and spectrum starved non-operational start-up Lightsquared hardly alter the…
AT&T has filed official paperwork to gobble another competitor with the agency charged with protecting the public interest and competition in a vital industry. That agency, the FCC, had already found a lack of competition among wireless carriers in its latest report. The FCC indicated in a public notice last week it had already begun…
AT&T has filed official paperwork to gobble another competitor with the agency charged with protecting the public interest and competition in a vital industry. That agency, the FCC, had already found a lack of competition among wireless carriers in its latest report. The FCC indicated in a public notice last week it had already begun…