Reject T-Mobile/Sprint/Dish Agreement, Public Interest Groups Tell Court
Four public interest groups told the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia it should reject the deal DOJ worked out with T-Mobile, Sprint and Dish Network allowing T-Mobile to buy Sprint. DOJ needs clearance from the court. Public…
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Knowledge, Consumer Reports, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and New America’s Open Technology Institute raised concerns Friday. DOJ’s “Competitive Impact Statement ably describes why the proposed merger between Sprint and T-Mobile would substantially lessen competition for retail mobile wireless service,” they said. DOJ agreed to the deal “not because it has devised a set of conditions that it can demonstrate will reliably preserve the competition that exists today, or that would increase competition beyond its current level. Instead, it has put forward conditions that, at most, and only if all goes well, might bring back a semblance of the current level of competition some years from now,” they said in docket 1:19-cv-02232.