The FCC should reject arguments by the Communications Workers of...
The FCC should reject arguments by the Communications Workers of America that it should approve Deutsche Telekom’s buy of MetroPCS only on the condition that it doesn’t cost jobs, said Free State Foundation President Randolph May on the group’s blog.…
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“Even granting that the ‘public interest’ standard under which the merger is being considered may be vague, were the Commission to attempt to employ such vagueness as a basis for imposing -- or for seeking to impose on T-Mobile through a wink-and-a-nod ‘voluntary’ extraction -- job protection conditions, the agency will commit an egregious abuse of its regulatory authority,” May contended (http://xrl.us/bn9dt2).