There’s a flurry of chatter on the internet regarding the leaked AT&T letter on the T-Mobile merger.
Apparently a lawyer accidentally leaked the letter on the FCC site and it addresses AT&T’s #1 talking point regarding the building out of the AT&T network and network overlap as well as the costs associated with each.
Here’s some reference sites regarding the story:
https://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/Leaked-ATT-Letter-Demolishes-Case-For-TMobile-Merger-115652
Here’s the “redacted – for public inspection”
Look on page 40
[Begin Confidential Information] [End Confidential Information]
https://prodnet.www.neca.org/publicationsdocs/wwpdf/61311att.pdf
I would imagine several pages of relevant financial information was removed.
Since when is a publicly traded company like AT&T involved in the purchase of another company dealing with the FCC and SEC allowed to “hide” information that we as consumers and citizens should be allowed to see.
As an AT&T customer I am appalled at the continued lack of regard for the consumer. AT&T Customer support is one of the worse of any industry. Their service is horrible, anyone who things or says otherwise is living in a fantasy world, either never travels, lives in a remote area where nobody hardly uses the service.
The tactics of AT&T are not to be admired in many cases. What they do to consumers with their price gouging and barrage of advertising and marketing materials is intolerable.
Here’s a quote from one of the forums, DSL Reports:
“Every day I drive past an AT&T billboard that says, “We cover 97% of the US”. It doesn’t say what they cover it with. My guess would be bullshit. I should take a picture and send it to the FCC and tell them they already claim to cover 97%.”
The battle of consumer vs corporate American greed continues. Could Apple buy a company like T-Mobile or Sprint and turn it around? Would Google do the same.
