AT&T’s planned buy of Leap Wireless and similar deals...
AT&T’s planned buy of Leap Wireless and similar deals “likely enhance overall consumer welfare, which, after all, ought to be the FCC’s chief concern,” said Seth Cooper, a Free State Foundation adjunct senior fellow, in a paper released Wednesday. AT&T/Leap…
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would likely increase competition for prepaid options by boosting Leap-owned Cricket’s brand availability, reliability and service, Cooper said. The deal would also “almost certainly” enhance spectral efficiency by giving AT&T the ability to use Leap’s unused spectrum and better utilize the portions Leap does use, he said. Leap uses about 42 percent of its spectrum footprint, and holds AWS and PCS licenses that remain unused, Cooper said. AT&T/Leap would also improve wireless broadband service “capacity and reliability by integrating Leap’s cell sites into AT&T’s network,” Cooper said (http://bit.ly/169C5oe).