The Department of Justice has seen through all of the song and dance that AT&T has been doing lately. The writing on the wall is clear. The AT&T takeover of T-Mobile is anti-competitive as it will eliminate the only competing GSM carrier which in turn will create an even more captive audience in the international roaming market.
A merger of AT&T and T-Mobile would have also eliminated many redundant jobs across the board from call centers and retail stores to middle management.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski in his statement said today that "competition fosters customer benefits, including more choices, better service and lower prices." REC could not agree more.
Just as we support more choices and more voices on the FM radio dial, we also support competition in the wireless broadband arena especially in rural areas where there are not that many choices.
For the sake of consumers and the sake of jobs, we will continue to oppose this merger.
