Unfair Competition in Telecommunications
July 20, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dave Saldana, 202-265-1490 x 32 |
House and Senate leaders question AT&T TakeoverFree Press agrees deal will harm consumers and kill jobsWASHINGTON -- Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, today submitted a letter urging Attorney General Eric Holder and Federal Communications Commission Chair Julius Genachowski to reject AT&T’s proposed takeover of T-Mobile. Kohl wrote that he had “concluded that the acquisition, if permitted to proceed, would likely cause substantial harm to competition and consumers, would be contrary to antitrust law and not in the public interest, and therefore should be blocked by your agencies.” Kohl’s letter joins a growing chorus of opposition to the proposed merger. Today Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and John Conyers (D-Mich.) also submitted a letter stating that they believed AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile "would be a troubling backward step in federal public policy - a retrenchment from nearly two decades of promoting competition and open markets to acceptance of a duopoly in the wireless marketplace." ### |
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