T-Mobile/Sprint Meet Starks' Aide on Proposed Deal
T-Mobile and Sprint executives met William Davenport, chief of staff to FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, to make the case for their proposed combination. “Low income and rural consumers will be some of the greatest beneficiaries,” said a filing posted Monday…
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in docket 18-197. “New T-Mobile’s network will deliver fiber-like speeds that will enable the merged company to provide an attractive competitive choice to today’s limited wired in-home broadband options.” Despite some reports a decision by DOJ is imminent, one is likely “weeks, if not months, away,” New Street wrote investors. “There could be an interim recommendation that suggests a number of conditions that would enable the deal to be approved, before an actual negotiation on conditions. Depending on the conditions, such a recommendation could be either very good or very bad for the deal.” The data regulators use in assessing the impact of a combination is key, New Street said. If government relies on porting data “that is bad for the deal and if it relies on T-Mobile’s preferred data, it is good,” New Street said.