C Spire Calls T-Mobile an Uncooperative Roaming Partner
C Spire urged the FCC to reject T-Mobile buying Sprint, it said Monday in docket 18-197 on a meeting with an aide to Chairman Ajit Pai. T-Mobile wrongly says C Spire made false claims about refusing to meet (see 1811200040),…
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C Spire said. “Serious concerns about the negative competitive impacts of the Proposed Transaction have been exacerbated by the refusal of T-Mobile to meet with C Spire in the period since the Petition was filed." Rules don’t prevent the companies from negotiating agreements or settling differences, it said. T-Mobile is spreading a “false narrative that it has been a cooperative roaming partner,” said C Spire, saying it roams there only “because of the lack of a reasonable alternative in the respective geographic area, not because the T-Mobile offering is fair and competitive.” If the FCC OKs the deal, require fair and reasonable wholesale roaming and MVNO agreements, C Spire asked. T-Mobile didn't comment Tuesday.