CEA Urges FCC to Quickly Wrap up Review of AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

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The Consumer Electronics Association called on the FCC to wrap up its review of AT&T’s nproposed buy of T-Mobile by the end of the year. The request came in a letter from President nGary Shapiro to members of the commission. Shapiro noted CEA takes no position on nwhether the deal should be approved. But a "time period of ambiguous competition does not nhelp either party, competition or consumers," he said. "As a matter of policy, this time period nshould be as short as possible." The 18 months the XM/Sirius review took "seriously nweakened both companies and the benefits to the companies and consumers of the resulting nmerger," Shapiro said. "Delay beyond this calendar year is unreasonable and puts the ncompanies, their competitors and consumers in limbo and serves no countervailing interest."