December
24
T-Mobile’s entire strategy is gone
T-Mobile’s entire strategy is gone
They should jump in with Google, it would save their customers and bring them the best devices and technology the company has to offer through Motorola and its partnerships with device manufactures. If would free Google from allowing bloatware on their devices and give them an exclusive revenue stream through the mobile ads they push to all android phones. Any score above 2,500 indicates a highly concentrated market, and any increase of more than 200 points clearly enhances market power, according to federal guidelines.
Taking into account the whole U.S. market, a combination of AT&T and T-Mobile would have increased the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI), a widely accepted measure of market concentration, to 3,216 from 2,848, according to a Bloomberg analysis.According to the report “Corporate Taxpayers & Corporate Tax Dodgers 2008-10,” two of the 25 companies with the largest total tax subsidies were AT&T at #2 ($14.5 billion) and Verizon at #3 ($12.3 billion).
Consumers are finally noticing that AT&T and Verizon = The Most Expensive Wireless Plans in America.“It’s only a slight overstatement to say that if they weren’t going to block this one, the Justice Department might as well just throw the antitrust guidelines out the window,” said Herbert Hovenkamp, professor of law at the University of Iowa, who is considered by many to be the dean of American antitrust law. “This merger clearly seems to violate them.”
If AT&T couldn’t get regulatory approval to buy T-Mobile, there’s no chance its even larger rival Verizon would be able to scoop it up. This is how AT&T and Verizon fashion themselves as brilliant … with their political use of money.We know where Verizon and AT&T (both in the top 5 for corporate lobbying) get all that money to run commercials 24×7, pay out huge “fat cat” executive bonuses and hire armies of lawyers and lobbyists to try to push the U.S. market into a wireless industry duopoly — the American consumer.
Also, there were 30 corporations that paid less than nothing in aggregate federal income taxes over the same period. These 30 companies, whose pretax U.S. profits totaled $160 billion over the three years, included Verizon. The report states the laws that allow this were not enacted in a vacuum, but rather were adopted in response to relentless corporate lobbying, threats and campaign support.A T-Mobile spokesman countered that the commitment level among T-Mobile executives remains “very strong.”
