There’s no need for legislation to change the nation’s antitrust ...
There’s no need for legislation to change the nation’s antitrust laws, USTelecom, formerly USTA, said in comments filed late Fri. with the Antitrust Modernization Commission. The Commission was formed under a 2002 law to determine if antitrust laws should…
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be changed. Four of its 12 members were appointed by the White House, 4 by the Senate and 4 by the House. USTelecom submitted testimony by former DoJ antitrust officials and a former FTC chmn. For example, James Rill, ex-DoJ antitrust chief, said it’s not only unnecessary but “unwarranted and unwise” to introduce legislation to modify the effect of the Trinko decision in which the U.S. Supreme Court said violations of the Telecom Act aren’t antitrust violations. Rill said Trinko was “entirely consistent with fundamental antitrust principles and strikes the right balance between antitrust and regulation.” Ex-FTC Chmn. Timothy Muris said it would be wrong to legislate rules against companies offering discounted bundled services. The history of antitrust enforcement “should give one pause about formulating aggressive rules against what is, at bottom, an important form of price competition,” Muris wrote.