Verizon, America’s largest wireless network, pulled a rabbit out of its corporate hat last month, announcing a multi-billion dollar deal to buy spectrum from cable-TV giants Comcast and Time Warner and the smaller, Syracuse, NY-based Bright House Networks. Sound familiar? AT&T, number two in wireless, made a similarly surprising move …
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By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AT&T, Ronald Coase, Spectrum, Verizon | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
 Leave a commentThe trend toward wireless voice calling at prices more akin to data plan pricing continued this week with the unveiling of AT&T’s Call International App. The free app (which works on most of AT&T’s smartphones) dramatically cuts the cost of voice rates when the phone is connected to … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: apps, AT&T, smartphones | Category: Quick Takes, Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentThe Department of Justice has come out with guns blazing in an effort to stop the $39 billion AT&T/T-Mobile USA merger. But is it really in the interest of either the antitrust bureaucracy—or the consumers they are supposed to represent—to put the kibosh on this one? There’s a legitimate dispute here. … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AT&T, Mergers and acquisitions, T-Mobile, United States Department of Justice, wireless | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
2 commentsWho says innovation and entrepreneurship are lagging in America? Not in the legal profession. Case in point: two national law firms are recruiting AT&T wireless customers to demand their rights to arbitration. But not just any arbitration… Like everybody else who isn’t a member of the trial bar, we think … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: arbitration, AT&T, Clayton Antitrust Act, legal entrepreneurship, Mergers, T-Mobile | Category: Antitrust |
Leave a commentAll right, we’ll say it: We love Netflix, the company that has made it so easy to watch any of thousands of movies anywhere, with hardly a moment’s forethought. And we’re not alone. The company boasts close to 26 million subscribers in the United States and Canada, and it recently … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Antitrust, AT&T, Comcast, Federal Communications Commission, Net Neutrality, Netflix | Category: Internet regulation |
Leave a commentCalifornia’s Public Utilities Commission has decided to investigate the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger, making no bones about the PUC’s concern that the merged companies’ combined market share in the state (47 percent) would be anti-competitive. Maybe, but there’s an irony here. AT&T’s goal is to use T-Mobile’s surplus spectrum … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Antitrust, AT&T, California Public Utilities Commission, merger, Spectrum, T-Mobile | Category: Quick Takes, Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentYesterday, the FCC decided to regulate the rates that big telecoms can charge the smaller ones for using their mobile networks for data services ranging from streaming video to Web mail. The “little” guys, including not-so-little Sprint, are happy. The big guys – AT&T and Verizon – are … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AT&T, mobile data services, rate regulation, Sprint, Verizon | Category: Internet regulation |
Leave a commentAT&T and T-Mobile USA want to get hitched in order to get a jump on the competition in completing a superfast 4G wireless broadband network. Are other mergers, designed to boost the market power of content providers in the coming world of broadband anywhere/everywhere, now in the works? Dennis Berman, … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AT&T, Dennis Berman, T-Mobile, wireless broadband | Category: Quick Takes, Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentSomeday, you’ll be able to turn on your TV and view any movie or show ever recorded anywhere with the tap of a few keys. And someday, it turns out, is now. All you (and the government) have to do is get out of the way and watch. Remember when you … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AT&T, Morgan Stanley, Net Neutrality, Netflix, streaming video, tiered rates, Verizon | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentRemember the dire warnings that Apple’s exclusive iPhone deal with AT&T would give the pair unprecedented market power? The jeremiahs are breathing easier now that Apple is apparently adding Verizon to the inner circle. But the market segment has long been more competitive than generally understood. … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Android, Apple, AT&T, iPhone, Microsoft, smartphone, Verizon | Category: Quick Takes, Telecommunications Regulation |
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