The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger: What Might Have Been?

Posted by D. Daniel Sokol

Maurice E. Stucke (Tennessee Law) and Allen P. Grunes (Brownstein Hyatt) ask The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger: What Might Have Been?

ABSTRACT: The case raises issues important in the USA but also in Europe as providers seek to concentrate worldwide to introduce new technology in a context where access to capital has become more difficult. For instance, how will authorities address the likelihood of negative coordinated effects attached to such transactions? Another issue is how they will deal with efficiency claims presented by merging parties.