By now , the AT&T - Mobile amalgamation is on its last legs . AT&T haspulled its formal applicationto the FCC so it can concenter on the doodiestorm that the Department of Justice is work down on its headway . The Washington Post shows ushow it all went so wrong .
AT&T ’s Hail Mary That Might bring through the T - Mobile Merger
After the T - Mobile deal was first announce , AT&T hunt down out its typical phalanx of lobbyists , politicians it had made effort contribution to , and stake groups that it funds to bumrush Capitol Hill . And because T - Mobile was certain to be such a controversial acquisition — the large such merger in years , actually — AT&T ran a full court press , cast everything it had at getting the good deal through . And it totally backfired :
The letter from third - party groups raised eyebrows at administration agencies and on the Hill , where citizenry began wondering why groups with no obvious ties to broadband were writing in . word report emerged showing that many of the groups had financial ties to AT&T.
So AT&T thought everyone on the Hill was an idiot . Not really news , sinceAT&T think ’s everyone ’s an idiot . But its hubris really strike through in the jambon - fisted way it handled the DOJ and FCC :
AT&T Thought We Were All Idiots ( Updated )
Incredulous staff members at the FCC also transmit a raspingly worded letter in the fall saying the company had “ grow almost nothing ” to prove its job title . Their incredulity rise when an AT&T attorney accidentally uploaded inner written document to the government agency ’s Web site that showed the company was plan to expand its broadband internet even if the merger did n’t go through .
Sure , the unification was probably anti - private-enterprise and a total reaching under most rendering of antitrust law , but what really lapse AT&T was its bizarre supposition that it was no big deal to tell seemingly boldface lies to investigators and the public without pee-pee enough effort to prove otherwise . You know , business as common . [ Washington Post ]
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