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T-Mobile, Sprint Slam Dish Complaint on Confidentiality of Filings

T-Mobile fired back at Dish Network complaints that T-Mobile and Sprint made overly broad use of the “highly confidential” designation under a protective order on their proposed deal, in docket 18-197. Dish complained Jan. 29. The carriers said in a…

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filing posted Wednesday: “Without much analysis or specificity, DISH requests that the Commission designate as public: ‘[i]nformation from the public record in the Compass Lexecon Declaration; [e]stimates of outside economic experts describing price effects expected from the merger; [a]lmost the entirety of the Cornerstone Report; and any other information designated as highly confidential that is not specifically covered by Appendix A of the Protective Order,’” “DISH’s claims are flatly wrong. The Applicants’ Highly Confidential Information designations are consistent with both the plain language of the Protective Order and with past precedent.”