Promises don’t mean much, but keeping T-Mobile’s lower-priced plans is important.
Details on the proposal remain vague, though it will likely include promises to keep T-Mobile’s low-cost data and calling plans.
Did Carly help the DOJ make its case against the merger?
…Much of the decision essentially boils down to whether T-Mobile is a significant fourth competitor, as its ad campaign had argued, or if, as AT&T was arguing, T-Mobile was a weak player whose acquisition would not substantially harm competition.
And, when forced to make that decision, regulators were clear. They went with the lady in the pink dress over the guy in the suit.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. “T-Mobile has been an important source of competition among the national carriers, including through innovation and quality enhancements such as the roll-out of the first nationwide high-speed data network,” Acting Assistant Attorney General Sharis A. Pozen said in a statement announcing the DOJ suit to block the deal. “Unless this merger is blocked, competition and innovation will be reduced, and consumers will suffer.”
