At least three House Democrats asked the FCC to examine...
At least three House Democrats asked the FCC to examine how the proposed Verizon Wireless/SpectrumCo deal could affect market competition, in separate letters made public Thursday. Rep. Mark Critz, D-Pa., said rural Americans should not be excluded from the low…
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prices and “constantly improving” telecommunications services in urban areas, in his letter to the commission. “Any telecommunications deal must embody true competitiveness to properly serve the community,” he wrote. Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., urged the FCC to carefully scrutinize the deal “to ensure that they will not in fact reduce competition and result in higher prices and few choices for consumers,” in his letter to the commission. Rep. Mike Capuano, D-Mass., asked the commissioners to consider how the deal would impact the “health of competition in the market and to be certain that such an agreement will not harm the goals of the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” in a separate letter.