Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., urged the FCC...
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., urged the FCC and Justice Department to carefully scrutinize the market impact of the pending Verizon/SpectrumCo deal, in a letter sent to both agencies Thursday. He expressed concern that the agencies’ review of…
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the transaction “may miss the overall impact on competitors,” specifically with respect to the proposed marketing and joint venture agreements. There are “serious concerns that the terms of these exclusive arrangements will allow the parties to bundle and market content and services in ways that restrain and make it impossible for their rivals to compete, adversely affecting consumers,” Rockefeller said. “Some also have voiced fears that if competitors are harmed directly by the joint operating agreements in particular areas of the country, their ability to gain the scale and scope necessary to serve rural customers in other parts of the country may be indirectly put at risk.” Both the FCC and DOJ are closely coordinating their review of the deal, a commission spokesman said Friday.