T-Mobile US submitted to the FCC a report...
T-Mobile US submitted to the FCC a report written by American University Washington College of Law professor Jonathan Baker that found reasonable aggregation limits in auctions would foster mobile competition. Baker’s paper also said two papers recently submitted by AT&T…
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that argued against aggregation limits were flawed (http://bit.ly/13UKK5Y). The AT&T submission “inappropriately focuses on the possibility that spectrum aggregation limits could hinder large incumbents’ abilities to realize production efficiencies rather than on the dangers that spectrum aggregation limits address: that the largest two incumbent firms could foreclose rivals from access to spectrum, and thereby relax the existing competitive constraint those rivals impose on the largest two firms, resulting potentially in higher prices, decreased investment and innovation, and lower service quality,” T-Mobile counsel Howard Symons said. The AT&T papers’ claim that the use of spectrum aggregation limits for auctions and the use of case-by-case reviews of secondary transactions could create arbitrage “are wrong and in any case will not likely occur,” Symons said (http://bit.ly/1cDQPM1).