AT&T Won’t Get a 5th Down
WASHINGTON – Today the Federal Communications Commission restarted its shot clock at day 83 for the AT&T/T-Mobile merger review. AT&T is on its fourth down with the fatally flawed submission of its fourth and final [...]
FCC to AT&T: Is That Your Final Answer? (Save the Internet)
By Joel Kelsey, August 24, 2011 Last Thursday five AT&T employees and twelve of its outside attorneys, from six different firms, got on a conference call with thirty-two officials from the Federal Communications Commission and [...]
RTG: AT&T Acquisition of T-Mobile Will Disrupt White House Rural Council Broadband Goals
Consolidation Reduces Consumer Choice; Deters Large Carriers From Deploying Rural 4G AT&T’s proposed takeover of T-Mobile will destroy jobs, frustrate innovation, and thwart deployment in rural America for years to come. President Obama recently signed [...]
AT&T Document Reveals Low Cost for AT&T Nationwide LTE Deployment
RTG Dismayed But Not Surprised That AT&T Admits To $3.8B Price Tag To Cover 55 Million Additional Americans With LTE Long-time suspicions of the Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG) were confirmed yesterday after an unredacted version [...]
AT&T’s Merger with T-Mobile May Actually Fall Through (The Atlantic Wire)
"In a surprising turn of events, the mega merger that consumer watchdogs decried, but most deemed a fait accompli, faces a real risk of disintegrating at the hands of federal regulators. Last last night, a [...]
AT&T and T-Mobile – New Best Friends
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RTG Supports Rep. Jay Inslee’s Push for FCC Public Hearing in Seattle on AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
Puget Sound Is Home To Over 3,300 T-Mobile At-Risk Jobs The Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG) applauds Rep. Jay Inslee’s (Washington’s 1st District) announcement earlier today that the Federal Communications Commission should conduct a public “field [...]
FCC To Review AT&T/Qualcomm and AT&T/T-Mobile Deals “in a coordinated manner”
The Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG) heartily supports the decision of the Federal Communications Commission to stop its informal 180 day timeline for reviewing the proposed AT&T/Qualcomm transaction and instead review the applications “in a coordinated [...]
RTG Applauds Sen. Franken’s Call to Reject AT&T/T-Mobile Takeover
Franken says merger would result in greatly reduced competition, the potential loss of thousands of jobs, higher consumer prices, and less innovation in technology Washington, D.C. – The Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG) today applauded Minnesota [...]
Takeover Times
In this issue: Why Approval of the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Would Harm The US Economy, GLG Research Group Gay Advocacy Group Withdraws Support for AT&T T-Mobile Deal, By Anton Trojanovski of the Wall Street Journal Critics [...]