Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is pleased the FCC and Justice Department moved to approve...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is pleased the FCC and Justice Department moved to approve Verizon Wireless’s spectrum deal with cable operators. “The world’s largest economy should have access to the world’s best telecommunications systems,” he said in a…
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news release Friday. “This decision, as well as the spectrum auction legislation passed as part of the payroll tax extension, help ensure this.” The agencies disclosed guidelines Thursday to govern Verizon Wireless’s purchase of AWS licenses from SpectrumCo and Cox (CD Aug 17 p1). Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., said he didn’t think Justice and the FCC had “gone far enough,” in a separate statement. “The FCC needs to stand up for consumers and address the lack of competition for high-speed broadband before it votes to approve this deal,” he said. “Without meaningful competition for broadband, the cable companies will be able to charge whatever they want -— and drive consumers to purchase expensive bundles of services they don’t want or need in order to get Internet service.”