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The 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 commentsSoon smartphones, tablets and as-yet barely imagined gadgets will be as ubiquitous as MP3 players, opening the door to a wireless future in which everything from professional sports to MRI scans will be available on demand anytime, anywhere. Or maybe not: much turns on the outcome of a struggle between … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Broadband, FCC, Genachowski, LTE, Spectrum, wireless | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentThe wireless communications revolution runs on money, technology and spectrum. The money and technology fronts seem in fine shape, thank you. And we are guardedly optimistic that the Obama administration will soon help to ease the spectrum bottleneck by auctioning off some underutilized electromagnetic real estate, raising billions of dollars … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AT&T, FCC, SkyTerra, Spectrum, Verizon, wireless | Category: Telecommunications Regulation |
Leave a commentJournalist Matt Hamblen offers anecdotal evidence from the CTIA wireless conference that mobile phones can dramatically increase the economic mobility of the poor. Among other things, cell phones can end the economic isolation of rural villages, increasing their access to competitive markets for both … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: competition, CTIA, economic mobility, mobile phones, poverty, wireless | Category: Quick Takes, Telecommunications Regulation |
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