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  • The AT&T/T-Mobile Deal Finds Another Adversary At The FCC

    Greg Kumparak

    Greg Kumparak is the Mobile Editor at Techcrunch. Greg has been writing for the TechCrunch network since May of 2008. Greg was born just outside of San Jose, and now lives in the East Bay of California. → Learn More

    Friday, April 1st, 2011

    Another day, another voice coming out against AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile. First came Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, then came New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Next up: FCC Commissioner Michael Copps.

    While the full source interview won’t air until this evening on C-SPAN, Politico has two pages of excerpts. His reasoning against the deal? Same as everyone else: it’ll put too much power in the hands of too few (If AT&T and T-Mobile merge, 80% of the wireless market will be accounted for by the top two companies [AT&T and Verizon]) and make it even harder for smaller carriers to compete.

    (For the record, I, too, am against the deal. Competition makes the world a better place.)

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