Verizon Wireless’s proposed buy of AWS licenses from SpectrumCo and...
Verizon Wireless’s proposed buy of AWS licenses from SpectrumCo and Cox would significantly raise the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) for Verizon, at least in terms of spectrum holdings, in many cellular market areas, T-Mobile said in a filing at the FCC.…
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T-Mobile has been one of the toughest critics of the spectrum deals, now before the FCC and the Justice Department. Verizon already has an HHI of above 2,500 in 688 CMAs of 728 CMAs for which data is available, symptomatic of a highly concentrated market, T-Mobile said (http://xrl.us/bnb5vp). “In other words, 95 percent of the CMAs are highly concentrated pre-acquisition,” T-Mobile said. “The Verizon/CableCo transactions would increase HHI by more than 200 points in 596 of the 688 highly concentrated CMAs” and “add 28 more CMAs to the highly concentrated category."