T-Mobile Says Wireless Combinations Haven't Meant High Prices in Europe
T-Mobile slammed arguments by the 4Competition Coalition (4CC) that U.S. mobile broadband prices are some of the highest in the industrialized world and that an example from Europe demonstrates T-Mobile's buying Sprint would result in even higher prices. 4CC cited…
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the four-to-three combination of T-Mobile Nederland and Orange. That “resulted in price increases of between 10 percent and 17 percent compared to control countries,” 4CC said. The group cited a similar example from Austria. The claims “are false, as actual data before and after mergers in the European Union demonstrates,” T-Mobile said in FCC docket 18-197, posted Tuesday. “Against this data, the opponents present only one, cherry-picked study from a pay-to-play operator that uses a bogus and results-driven methodology.”