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Is AT&T making a threat to users that if the merger fails prices will go up?

Discussion in 'Wireless News' started by ComicalMoodyDan, Dec 9, 2011.

  1. ComicalMoodyDan

    ComicalMoodyDan Gold Senior Member
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    As AT&T faces Judge today, CEO says no T-Mobile deal will lead to higher prices for everyone
    Posted: 1 hour ago, by Alan F.

    AT&T is due back in U.S. District Court today in relation to the suit filed against it by the Department of Justice. The DOJ seeks to block the carrier's $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile and the visit to the courtroom today by both parties is simply for the Judge to make sure that both sides will be ready for the February 13th trial, and to check on the status of separate lawsuits filed by C-Spire and Sprint to block the purchase.

    This is AT&T's first trip to court since it withdrew its application for the deal with the FCC. While some feel that the judge will press AT&T to make a decision on whether or not it plans on continuing to seek approval of the deal, nothing that AT&T has done since withdrawing the application from the FCC has suggested that it is giving up on closing the purchase of the nation's fourth largest carrier. In fact, the only reason why the application was pulled was to prevent the FCC from voting on an order to have the deal looked at by an administrative law judge.

    Another AT&T competitor was recently added to the case when broadband wholesaler LightSquared argued that without an FCC application, there is no plan on the part of AT&T to complete the merger. But nothing prevents AT&T from resubmitting an application if it should win the trial against the DOJ.

    Meanwhile, AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson says that blocking the deal will result in higher prices for everyone. If the carrier can't add T-Mobile's pipeline to its current network, it will end up with constrained capacity that will result in price hikes. Talking at a Captains of Industry interview series with Bloomberg News Chief Norman Pearlstine at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Stephenson added that "regulators can’t keep up with the changes in the industry."

    As AT&T faces Judge today, CEO says no T-Mobile deal will lead to higher prices for everyone
     
    #1 ComicalMoodyDan, Dec 9, 2011
  2. music4praise

    music4praise Senior Member

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    The AT&T board needs to call a meeting and vote to remove Randall Stephenson. Whatever anyone thinks of the merger, the CEO is just making the whole company look stupid.
     
    #2 music4praise, Dec 9, 2011
  3. Shizam76

    Shizam76 Shizam! Babyyyyy!
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    Without the deal, it will end up with constrained capacity that will result in price hikes.

    Are you kidding me????? I hope at&t takes a flying leap off a building somewhere. Raise that price Randall :mad:
     
    #3 Shizam76, Dec 18, 2011
  4. dmapr

    dmapr Silver Senior Member
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    Well, I've been saying all along that AT&T will pass the buck (whatever it costs them if the deal fails) to the customer, but even I haven't expected them to be so shameless about it.
     
    #4 dmapr, Dec 18, 2011
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    COtech Bronze Senior Member
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    I can see some reductions myself, on the wireline side. Four of my local co-workers will be leaving the payroll as of March 31, 2012, as announced December 15th (quarterly surpluss). There are others in other titles as well, through out the Southeast. (Some may go as retirements, others will be laid off.)

    COtech
     
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    #5 COtech, Dec 18, 2011
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