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CWA Has Been Wrong Before, Has No Credibility, Says Top T-Mobile Official

T-Mobile fired back Wednesday at Chris Shelton, president of the Communications Workers of America, who had slammed the Sprint/T-Mobile deal Tuesday in a C-SPAN interview (see 1902190068). “CWA has a track record of inaccuracy and subsequently no credibility,” emailed Kathleen…

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Ham, T-Mobile senior vice president government affairs. CWA earlier had said T-Mobile’s buy of MetroPCS seven years ago would eliminate 10,000 U.S. jobs, Ham said: “The reality is that nearly 3x more people come to work for our Metro business every day -- compared to the time of the merger. That is job growth.” The T-Mobile/Sprint deal will be “jobs positive from day number one and create at least 11,000 jobs” in the U.S., she said. Ham is a key T-Mobile official working with federal regulators on deal approval.