Verizon, Tracfone Counter AAI at FCC
Verizon and Tracfone countered arguments by the American Antitrust Institute (see 2104050029) on their proposed deal, in a filing posted Monday in FCC docket 21-112. “AAI is wrong on the competition analysis framework that applies to [mobile virtual network operators]…
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and the wireless marketplace,” the companies said: “Despite a longstanding, consistent and bipartisan view that MVNO subscribers should be attributed to their host [carriers] when calculating wireless market shares, AAI now claims that such an approach is ‘flawed and misleading’ and ‘contrary to basic economics.’” The companies said AAI is wrong “to posit a separate prepaid wireless product market, but in any event the Verizon/TracFone combination will fuel more competition for prepaid customers.”