Consumer, Public Interest Groups Make Case Against T-Mobile/Sprint
Consumer and public interest groups explained objections to T-Mobile buying Sprint in a Friday FCC filing on meeting the staff team reviewing it. It's "a classic horizontal merger in an already ‘highly concentrated’ market,” the groups said in docket 18-197.…
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“It is likely to dramatically reduce wireless market competition and harm consumers, leaving the wireless market with higher prices, less variety in products and services, reduced innovation, and poorer service quality and customer service than would exist absent the merger.” Representatives of Public Knowledge, New America’s Open Technology Institute, Free Press, Common Cause, the Open Markets Institute, Consumer Reports and Writers Guild of America West attended. T-Mobile didn’t comment.