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…
DetailsAfter 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…
DetailsConsumer and business groups voiced their opposition to the AT&T merger proposal a day ahead of a hearing on Capitol Hill. The Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing, “The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger: Is Humpty Dumpty Being Put Back Together Again?” will be webcast. CCIA President & CEO Ed Black said there has been tremendous innovation in the tech sector since…
DetailsConsumer and business groups voiced their opposition to the AT&T merger proposal a day ahead of a hearing on Capitol Hill. The Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing, “The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger: Is Humpty Dumpty Being Put Back Together Again?” will be webcast. CCIA President & CEO Ed Black said there has been tremendous innovation in the tech sector since…
DetailsThe 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.…
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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…
DetailsAT&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…
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