I agree totally with Timothy Kerr. The government spent a decade breaking up the old AT&T monopoly. It has taken roughly the same amount of time for it to almost reconstitute itself. It is no longer the single telecommunications monolith it once was but, with the acquisition of T-Mobile it will be hard to say it would not be. The merger would most definitely result in “job consolidation.” Layoffs that would occur simply based on multiple duplication of work. Cell phone prices and equipment would certainly increase. These changes will not occur overnight. In this economy is this merger really beneficial to the American public? No.

Timothy Karr: Throw Your Smartphone Down the Rabbit Hole.