RWA, NTCA Ask FCC to Seek Comment on T-Mobile/Sprint/Dish Deal
NTCA and the Rural Wireless Association asked the FCC to seek comment on the DOJ-supported buy of Sprint by T-Mobile and the sale of assets to Dish Network. “The proposed merger is now a completely different arrangement than what is…
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currently before the Commission,” said a request, posted Monday in docket 18-197. The agreement with DOJ “relies on the highly questionable assumption that the harm to competition recognized by DOJ that would result from the loss of Sprint from the nationwide mobile wireless marketplace would be offset by the competitive impact of the Dish acquisition of assets that would supposedly result in Dish becoming a fourth facilities-based nationwide mobile wireless competitor with sufficient strength to prevent the substantial competitive harms that would result from the exit of Sprint,” it said. FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks earlier tweeted that the FCC should seek comment on the new arrangement (see 1907260071).