T-Mobile CEO Should Beware Unintended Consequences From Auction Advocacy, AEI Scholar Says
T-Mobile’s colorful CEO John Legere is trying to game the system in seeking more reserve spectrum, available to T-Mobile and other competitive carriers, in the TV incentive auction, said Gus Hurwitz, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute’s Center…
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for Internet, Communications and Technology Policy. T-Mobile has accelerated its lobbying to get the FCC to change the auction rules, Hurwitz said in a blog post Wednesday. But “bad things can happen when regulators try to manipulate markets, even when that manipulation is based on pressure from market participants themselves,” he said. “No matter how well-intentioned Legere’s desire for more spectrum may be -- and I do think that he is both well intentioned and rather engaging in his advocacy -- efforts to weigh the scales in favor of preferred winners often yield unintended -- and undesired -- outcomes.”