A Texas congressman is behind a letter sent to President Barack Obama last month disagreeing with the U.S. Department of Justice’s choice to block the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile, a deal that would give the nation’s largest wireless carrier an even greater share of the market.
On Wednesday, the Department of Justice moved to block the proposed $39 billion takeover of mobile carrier T-Mobile by telecom giant AT&T, arguing the merger would violate anti-trust laws and would diminish price, quality, and innovation, Bloomberg News reported.
As Gov. Rick Perry makes tours the country promoting Texas as the country’s hub for job growth, minority communities in the state with already high unemployment rates are slated to lose even more jobs if a major telecomm merger championed by Perry goes through, reports The Huffington Post.
A telecommunications industry merger that critics say will hurt the public interest and inhibit competition is being backed by some Texas congressmen whose campaign coffers are lined with thousands of dollars from the telecom companies that will benefit from the deal.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst aren’t the only state leaders in the U.S. to have private donors and corporate interests pick up the tab for their inauguration ceremony.
The Dallas Morning News‘ Wayne Slater reports that “Oil executives, beer distributors, lobbyists and big-dollar campaign donors
With conservatives screaming from the rafters about the elimination of a business tax deduction for retiree benefits in the Democrats’ health reform law, The New York Times responds today with a pretty convincing argument for why the change makes sense.
First, here’s how the 2003 Medicare More…
A federal district court judge in California yesterday dismissed a slew of lawsuits filed against telecommunications companies that allegedly helped the U.S. government engage in warrantless wiretapping.
Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco dismissed the cases because Congress explicitly gave the telecom companies immunity from civil suits in More…
I hate to say it, but, I told you so…
Just the other day, when I was writing about the case of Jewel v. NSA (and responding to the Columbia Journalism Review’s criticism that no one was covering this important case about warrantless wiretapping), I remarked that while More…
In an interview that aired Wednesday night on the CBS Evening News, Attorney General Eric Holder suggested to Katie Couric that the Obama administration is unlikely to depart dramatically from the Bush administration’s position on the use of the state secrets privilege, noting just one case out of about 20 More…
Have you ever lived somewhere with really lousy cell phone service?
If so, you’ve probably wondered if there was anything you could do about it. As it turns out, there is — as long as you happen to be married to a powerful senator who sits on the the Senate More…
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