CWA launches website to oppose T-Mobile-Sprint deal
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) has launched a new website with information about the effects of the T-Mobile-Sprint merger, including detailed state-by-state information about job loss, merger related news articles, and links to organizational comments filed with the FCC. You can also stay up to date by following @TMSprintFacts on Twitter.
Visit the website at https://www.tmobilesprintfacts.org/
The proposed T-Mobile and Sprint merger is bad news for American workers and consumers. While T-Mobile and Sprint are making vague promises that the merger will create thousands of jobs in the US, the data and the companies' track records tell a different story. The merger would result in job loss across the country and increased prices for consumers, while still leaving rural communities without access to high-speed broadband.
Last week, CWA submitted new comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the proposed T-Mobile-Sprint merger. The new filing assesses the companies' insufficient responses to CWA's initial comments to the FCC and finds that T-Mobile and Sprint have failed to show that there would be verifiable, merger-related public interest benefits that would outweigh the substantial harm the deal would cause to working people and consumers.
Links:
T-Mobile & Sprint Facts (CWA, Nov. 2018)
Comments of Communications Workers of America (CWA, Aug. 27, 2018)
Reply Comments of Communications Workers of America (CWA, Oct. 31, 2018)
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