It’s official: The era of salad bar style mobile data plans is almost over. AT&T has joined Verizon and T-Mobile in slowing download speeds for its remaining customers with unlimited data plans, once they reach set (albeit generous) limits. Among the national mobile carriers, only Sprint, which is struggling to compete …
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By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AT&T, FCC, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon | Category: 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 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 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 |
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Professor Dieter Helm (Oxford) is a very fine fly fisherman, and an even better economist. If you haven’t done so, take a look at his new book “The Carbon Crunch: How We Are Getting Climate Change Wrong — and How to Fix It” for a bit of unconventional wisdom. He argues that politicians and the general public have not shown any real interest in addressing climate change. Helm argues that places like Europe should focus on setting a price for carbon that would cover consumption (and not just production), and that fracking could be a good “bridge” technology for reducing consumption of coal. The book is readable and insightful for those interested in the inside track on climate policy. 
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