NationalJournal: AT&T Merger Will Boost Broadband Deployment, Jobs, Groups Contend
The Association for Competitive Technology, which represents many mobile-app makers, also cited the need for more spectrum as one of the reasons it is backing the merger.
ACT Executive Director Morgan Reed said in a separate conference call that combining the resources of AT&T and T-Mobile will help alleviate the spectrum crunch the wireless industry faces — a crunch fueled by the public’s growing demand for wireless technologies. He said while his group supports the FCC’s efforts to obtain additional spectrum for wireless broadband, such proposals as incentive auctions will take years to bear fruit.
“The rollout of new spectrum will be years in the making,” Reed said. The spectrum crunch “needs to be alleviated immediately.”
