Nine members of Wash. state’s House delegation urged FCC Chmn. Po...
Nine members of Wash. state’s House delegation urged FCC Chmn. Powell to move “expeditiously” on VoiceStream-Deutsche Telekom merger and to keep international trade implications in mind. “There is no way in which this merger reduces competition in the United…
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States or in any way harms U.S. consumers,” bipartisan group of representatives said. Letter was signed by Wash. Reps. Nethercutt (R), Dunn (R), Dicks (D), Hastings (R), Smith (D), Inslee (D), McDermott (D), Larsen, Baird. Members also said European Commission recently urged U.S. to abide by its World Trade Organization basic telecom agreement commitments. “If the FCC were to disregard those commitments, or to interpret U.S. law or its rules in a manner that conflicted with those commitments, the FCC would start a trade war that could damage exports in any sector of the U.S. economy, not just telecommunications.”