T-Mobile Buys USCellular After Clearing Antitrust Review
Eric Fruits, senior scholar at ICLE, is quoted in this JD Supra article on T-Mobile’s $4.4 billion acquisition of UScellular’s wireless operations, with a focus on the transaction’s clearance by the DOJ and FCC, its competitive and structural implications in the U.S. wireless market, and its potential effects on rural connectivity and market consolidation. Read the full article here.
Economist Eric Fruits of the International Center for Law & Economics agreed that the deal is a positive one, saying, “UScellular provides no meaningful competitive constraints on T-Mobile… The transaction presents an opportunity to address the structural challenges of a struggling regional carrier, while boosting competition and innovation across the wireless industry.”