{"id":1727,"date":"2011-04-20T11:16:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T11:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discovery.org\/tech\/2011\/04\/20\/attt-mobile_merger_debate\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T21:56:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:56:32","slug":"attt-mobile_merger_debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/2011\/04\/20\/attt-mobile_merger_debate\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T\/T-Mobile merger debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"41802_11272407594_9840_n.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.disco-tech.org\/41802_11272407594_9840_n.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/>Over at <em>Technology Liberation Front, <\/em> several colleagues and I recently &#8220;debated&#8221; the proposed merger between AT&amp;T and T-Mobile from a free market perspective.  For a skeptical take on the merger, see the item by Milton Mueller.  The rest of us are more optimistic.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techliberation.com\/2011\/04\/18\/the-att-t-mobile-merger-beyond-the-arithmetic\/\" \/>The AT&amp;T &#8211; T-Mobile Merger: Beyond the Arithmetic<\/a>, by Larry Downes (Apr. 18, 2011)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techliberation.com\/2011\/04\/18\/why-i-fear-the-att-t-mobile-merger\/\" \/>Why I fear the AT&amp;T-T-Mobile merger<\/a>, by Milton Mueller (Apr. 18, 2011)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techliberation.com\/2011\/04\/19\/open-minded-on-the-attt-mobile-merger\/\" \/>Open minded on the AT&amp;T\/T-Mobile merger<\/a>, by Hance Haney (Apr. 19, 2011)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techliberation.com\/2011\/04\/20\/information-control-market-concentration-and-the-attt-mobile-deal\/\" \/>Information Control, Market Concentration, and the AT&amp;T\/T-Mobile Deal<\/a>, by Ryan Radia (Apr. 20, 2011)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techliberation.com\/2011\/04\/22\/for-the-last-time-the-bell-system-monopoly-is-not-being-rebuilt\/\" \/>For The Last Time: The Bell System Monopoly Is Not Being Rebuilt<\/a>, by Steven Titch (Apr. 22, 2011)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAlso see these prior essays:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techliberation.com\/2011\/03\/21\/attt-mobile-highlights-artificial-spectrum-scarcity\/\" \/>AT&amp;T\/T-Mobile highlights artificial spectrum scarcity<\/a>, by Jerry Brito (Mar. 21, 2011)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techliberation.com\/2011\/03\/21\/some-random-thoughts-on-att-t-mobile-merger\/\" \/>Some Random Thoughts on AT&amp;T \/ T-Mobile Merger<\/a>, by Adam Thierer (Mar. 21, 2011)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techliberation.com\/2011\/03\/22\/the-att-and-t-mobile-merger\/\" \/>The AT&amp;T and T-Mobile Merger<\/a>, by Joshua Wright (Mar. 22, 2011)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techliberation.com\/2011\/03\/22\/no-facts-no-problem\/\" \/>No Facts, No Problem?<\/a> by Joshua Wright (Mar. 22, 2011)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techliberation.com\/2011\/04\/08\/again-its-really-hard-to-bottle-up-digital-generativity-openness\/\" \/>Again, It&#8217;s Really Hard to Bottle Up Digital Generativity \/ Openness<\/a>, by Adam Thierer (Apr. 8, 2011)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Technology Liberation Front, several colleagues and I recently &#8220;debated&#8221; the proposed merger between AT&amp;T and T-Mobile from a free market perspective. For a skeptical take on the merger, see the item by Milton Mueller. The rest of us are more optimistic. The AT&amp;T &#8211; T-Mobile Merger: Beyond the Arithmetic, by Larry Downes (Apr. 18, 2011) Why I fear the AT&amp;T-T-Mobile merger, by Milton Mueller (Apr. 18, 2011) Open minded on the AT&amp;T\/T-Mobile merger, by Hance Haney (Apr. 19, 2011) Information Control, Market Concentration, and the AT&amp;T\/T-Mobile Deal, by Ryan Radia (Apr. 20, 2011) For The Last Time: The Bell System Monopoly Is Not Being Rebuilt, by Steven Titch (Apr. 22, 2011)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,45],"tags":[],"coauthors":[112],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antitrust","category-telecommunications"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Hance Haney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1727"}],"wp:action-assign-author":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}