Verizon Deal with T-Mobile Deserves Careful Scrutiny

WASHINGTON – On Monday, Verizon and T-Mobile announced a deal to exchange specific AWS licenses in markets across the nation.

Free Press Policy Adviser Joel Kelsey made the following statement:

“The evidence presented in Verizon’s deal with SpectrumCo definitively proves that Verizon is badly overstating its need for the cable companies’ spectrum.  We will reserve our judgment on the Verizon-T-Mobile deal until more details are disclosed, but our goal all along has been to ensure that consumers have access to more competitive wireless market and that spectrum policy is used to achieve, not thwart that goal.”