{"id":8414,"date":"2018-08-28T10:24:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T14:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/common-cause-files-petition-to-deny-proposed-t-mobile-sprint-merger\/"},"modified":"2018-08-28T10:24:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T14:24:03","slug":"common-cause-files-petition-to-deny-proposed-t-mobile-sprint-merger","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ar\/press\/common-cause-files-petition-to-deny-proposed-t-mobile-sprint-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause Files Petition to Deny\u00a0Proposed T-Mobile-Sprint Merger"},"template":"","class_list":["post-8414","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Yesterday, Common Cause joined Consumer\u2019s Union, New America\u2019s Open Technology Institute, Public Knowledge, and Writer\u2019s Guild of America West, Inc. in filing a petition with the Federal Communications Commission asking the agency to deny the proposed $26 billion merger of T-Mobile US Inc. and Sprint Corporation. If approved, the number of national wireless carriers would be reduced from four to three, leading to less competition and higher prices for consumers. Low-income and marginalized communities who disproportionately rely on T-Mobile and Sprint for more affordable services may also find themselves displaced from wireless access.","featured_image":"","press_type":236,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7855}"],"related_issues":[134,136,2065],"related_work":false,"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Yesterday, Common Cause joined Consumer\u2019s Union, New America\u2019s Open Technology Institute, Public Knowledge, and Writer\u2019s Guild of America West, Inc. in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/T-Mobile-Sprint-Petition-to-Deny-CC-CU-OTI-PK-WGA.pdf\">filing a petition<\/a> with the Federal Communications Commission asking the agency to deny the proposed $26 billion merger of T-Mobile US Inc. and Sprint Corporation. If approved, the number of national wireless carriers would be reduced from four to three, leading to less competition and higher prices for consumers. Low-income and marginalized communities who disproportionately rely on T-Mobile and Sprint for more affordable services may also find themselves displaced from wireless access.\r\n\r\n<strong><em>\u0628\u064a\u0627\u0646 \u0645\u0627\u064a\u0643\u0644 \u0643\u0648\u0628\u0633\u060c \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0641\u0648\u0636 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0628\u0642 \u0644\u0644\u062c\u0646\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0627\u062a\u0635\u0627\u0644\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0641\u064a\u062f\u0631\u0627\u0644\u064a\u0629 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0633\u062a\u0634\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u062e\u0627\u0635 \u0644\u0644\u0642\u0636\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0634\u062a\u0631\u0643\u0629<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nThis is a bad deal that has significant consequences for consumers and competition. The wireless industry is already highly concentrated and will only get worse if T-Mobile and Sprint are allowed to merge. T-Mobile has been a disruptive force in the marketplace offering innovative products and affordable services in an effort to compete with the other three wireless carriers. But New T-Mobile\u2019s innovation and affordable offerings will disappear post-merger when it faces less competition. Consumers can expect to see higher prices and fewer choices across the board. Even worse, T-Mobile and Sprint are direct competitors with each other in several markets, particularly the prepaid market, which primarily serve low-income consumers and other marginalized communities. Eliminating two direct competitors would give T-Mobile all the power and incentive to raise prices for prepaid service with no other major challengers in the market. This would displace millions of low-income Americans who have no alternative options for wireless service.\r\n\r\nOur democracy depends on all Americans having access to robust and affordable broadband services in order to fully participate in a 21<sup>\u0634\u0627\u0631\u0639<\/sup> century society. There are no benefits to the public interest in a marketplace where Verizon, AT&amp;T and T-Mobile are allowed to call all of the shots that will only widen the digital divide. Given the significant harms, the FCC should block the T-Mobile-Sprint merger.\r\n\r\nTo read the petition to deny, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/T-Mobile-Sprint-Petition-to-Deny-CC-CU-OTI-PK-WGA.pdf\">\u0627\u0646\u0642\u0631 \u0647\u0646\u0627<\/a>."}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Common Cause Files Petition to Deny\u00a0Proposed T-Mobile-Sprint Merger - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ar\/press-releases\/common-cause-files-petition-to-deny-proposed-t-mobile-sprint-merger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ar_AR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Common Cause Files Petition to Deny\u00a0Proposed T-Mobile-Sprint Merger\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ar\/\u064a\u0636\u0639\u0637\/common-cause-files-petition-to-deny-proposed-t-mobile-sprint-merger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/common-cause-files-petition-to-deny-proposed-t-mobile-sprint-merger\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/common-cause-files-petition-to-deny-proposed-t-mobile-sprint-merger\/\",\"name\":\"Common Cause Files Petition to Deny\u00a0Proposed T-Mobile-Sprint Merger - 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