AT&T's PR Shop must be Frustrated
Poor AT&T.
In planning for their takeover of T-Mobile, their PR team wants to spin you the story that the only people opposed to them swallowing up T-Mobile are the folks like me who work for Sprint.
If they can convince you that this is really a dispute between AT&T and Sprint, then why should you care? After all, what consumer really cares about two big companies fighting?
The problem for AT&T is that every major consumer advocacy group is opposed to the takeover. So are nation's rural wireless carriers. So are T-Mobile's customers. And that's just not what AT&T planned for.
The story I've linked to above is an important one because it shows how desperate AT&T is to fool you.
AT&T is trying to pull a fast one on regulators and grab spectrum from Qualcomm in a separate FCC proceeding. The consumer watchdogs are having none of that. They are insisting that the FCC reject AT&T's bid to buy the Qualcomm spectrum and barring that, they want the Qualcomm matter to be considered as part of the regulatory review of the T-Mobile takeover.
That seems pretty reasonable to me.
Why should either proceeding be considered in a vacuum?
