FCC Official on AT&T / T-Mobile Merger
Thursday, May 10th, 2012That is what has happened. After the announcement that AT&T will offer 39 billion to buy T-Mobile USA competition was speculation that the merger will be affected by the antitrust laws do not wait. Of course, it is now Verizon Wireless and AT&T account for most mobile phone users to keep a huge gap over the other competitors. If the purchase is made they will combine the second and fourth mobile operator mobile with more income in the United States, which would leave the industry in a virtual duopoly. AT&T, meanwhile, argued that the industry is analyzed from city to city, arguing that there is now a very competitive and that in 18 of the 20 major markets across the country there are at least five competitors. In addition, the company tried to play the political background to the acquisition because they show that, by buying may make more efficient use of scarce spectrum wireless signals to help realize the government’s plans for Barack Obama to expand broadband access to the band to all areas of the occupied country.

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