T-Mobile Cites FCC Republican Support as It Seeks Rejection of State AG Suit
Three of the five FCC commissioners agree T-Mobile's buying Sprint is good for competition and the public interest, the would-be buyer said Tuesday as it answered (in Pacer) a state attorneys general complaint in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Sprint…
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also filed that day (in Pacer). “After one of the most exhaustive and thorough premerger investigations in history, the FCC Chairman and two other Commissioners have voiced their support for the merger,” wrote T-Mobile, referring to the agency’s Republicans. “FCC action is expected in the near future,” and the agency “secured legally binding commitments from the parties to accelerate their promised business plan,” including to expand 5G coverage, increase speeds and keep prices low, it said. The carrier contended AGs “reject engineering and physics realities, which show that the combination of Sprint’s and T-Mobile’s complementary spectrum and assets will create a far better network with much greater capacity at lower cost than either could do separately,” and they "ignore major players in the wireless marketplace."