{"id":25171,"date":"2019-02-08T10:10:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T15:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25171"},"modified":"2019-11-20T10:29:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:29:44","slug":"new-york-agrees-that-a-t-mobile-sprint-merger-would-serve-the-public-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25171\/new-york-agrees-that-a-t-mobile-sprint-merger-would-serve-the-public-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Agrees That a T-Mobile\/Sprint Merger Would Serve the Public Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that didn\u2019t take long.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the New York State Public Service Commission <a href=\"http:\/\/documents.dps.ny.gov\/public\/Common\/ViewDoc.aspx?DocRefId=%7B83427611-4F04-4D0C-AEB0-429D85689C5A%7D\">approved the proposed T-Mobile\/Sprint merger<\/a> as \u201cin the public interest\u201d after considering all of the relevant facts and competing arguments.<\/p>\n<p>As CFIF and others have emphasized since the proposed merger\u2019s announcement, the transaction would provide an <a href=\"https:\/\/ecfsapi.fcc.gov\/file\/1091390600868\/FCC%20Comment%20PDF%20--%209-13-18.pdf\">enormous net benefit<\/a> to the American economy and consumers, and there\u2019s simply no reason for needless delay or misplaced opposition from federal, state or local governments.\u00a0 In terms of faster 5G transition in the U.S., more jobs, more private telecommunications investment, greater market competition, broader nationwide coverage for consumers, capacity improvements, performance improvements and lower prices (as <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25167\/proposed-t-mobile-sprint-merger-already-bearing-fruit\/\">we highlighted just yesterday<\/a>), this merger is a no-brainer.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, among other benefits to the public that <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24892\/good-news-for-consumers-federal-judge-rejects-doj-attempt-to-block-atttime-warner-merger\/\">we\u2019ve emphasized<\/a>, the New York Commission yesterday noted how the merger would result in a new entity whose whole would be greater than the sum of its current parts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he Petitioners have addressed concerns related to the broader issues raised by others in this case\u2026\u00a0 In response to claims that T-Mobile and Sprint would have built 5G networks in any case, the Petitioners assert that the new T-Mobile will be able to build a larger, more robust network in a more timely fashion, than either of the two companies on their own.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We at CFIF applaud the Commission\u2019s common-sense finding, and hope that other authorities will demonstrate similar rationality.\u00a0 In particular, next week the House Judiciary and Energy &amp; Commerce Committees will hold a <a href=\"https:\/\/energycommerce.house.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/energy-commerce-and-judiciary-committee-leaders-announce-joint-hearing-on-t\">joint hearing<\/a> on the proposed merger.\u00a0 As Energy &amp; Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D \u2013 New Jersey), Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D \u2013 New York), Communications &amp; Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D \u2013 Pennsylvania) and Antitrust, Commercial &amp; Administrative Law Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline (D \u2013 Rhode Island) explicitly stated in their joint announcement, \u201cWe look forward to examining this merger from the perspective of what is in the best interest of consumers and hardworking people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, New York authorities examined that same question yesterday, and the answer was obvious in the affirmative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that didn\u2019t take long. Yesterday, the New York State Public Service Commission approved the proposed T-Mobile\/Sprint merger as \u201cin the public interest\u201d after considering all of the relevant facts and competing arguments. As CFIF and others have emphasized since the proposed merger\u2019s announcement, the transaction would provide an enormous net benefit to the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[466,3223,4197,5056],"class_list":["post-25171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-antitrust","tag-merger","tag-sprint","tag-t-moble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25171"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25454,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25171\/revisions\/25454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}