FCC Approves T-Mobile Buy of UScellular Wireless Assets, DOJ Won’t Oppose
Kristian Stout, ICLE’s Innovation Policy Director, was recently quoted in Communications Daily regarding the FCC’s approval and DOJ’s non-opposition to T-Mobile’s acquisition of UScellular wireless assets. Read the full article here.
“The analysis appears to be ‘a bit out of step with how competition actually plays out,’ emailed Kristian Stout, innovation policy director for the International Center for Law & Economics. For most consumers, wireless competition ‘is experienced at the local level, and the empirical work I’ve seen shows that three well-capitalized carriers can sustain healthy price and quality outcomes.’ Keeping the field at three players ‘can yield scale efficiencies — particularly in how spectrum is financed and deployed over a wide footprint — that ultimately benefit users.'”