Senators should highlight competition enabled by the Verizon/CableCo deal in...
Senators should highlight competition enabled by the Verizon/CableCo deal in next week’s Antitrust Subcommittee hearing, Precursor President Scott Cleland said in a note Tuesday. He suggested that senators ask whether potential wireless competition by cable can really be considered potential…
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if it’s not economic or sustainable. “Why shouldn’t new real actual competition enabled by this agreement (in the form of wireless being added to the cable bundle, and cable being offered in a Verizon Wireless bundle) outweigh speculative harms of uneconomic potential competition?” Among other questions, senators should ask if the FCC would be exceeding its legal authority in considering antitrust issues and if it’s being “arbitrary and capricious … in slow-rolling the transfer of much-needed fallow spectrum, and forcing inappropriate public transparency on commercially sensitive information,” Cleland said. The hearing is March 21 in Room 226, Dirksen Building.