Coalition Forms Opposing T-Mobile/Sprint
The biggest coalition yet to oppose T-Mobile’s takeover of Sprint has formed. The group calls itself the 4Competition Coalition. "Consumers deserve more competition from our wireless industry, not less," said Jeff Blum, Dish Network senior vice president-public policy and government…
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affairs. "Sprint and T-Mobile have not shown that this merger as it is currently proposed will serve the public interest. Instead, they have admitted that consumer prices will rise.” The record “clearly demonstrates that this deal proposes an alarming increase in market concentration and will result in a dangerous oligopoly market structure,” said Ben Moncrief, C-Spire vice president-government relations. Other members are the AFL-CIO, Common Cause, Communications Workers of America, Fight for the Future, Greenlining Institute, New America's Open Technology Institute, NTCA, the Open Markets Institute, Public Knowledge, Rural Wireless Association and Writers Guild of America West. Sprint and T-Mobile didn’t comment.