Verizon/Frontier Merger Conditions Shouldn't Address Broad Industry Issues: FSF
The Free State Foundation’s Seth Cooper said Wednesday that Verizon is correct and the FCC should ignore the Coalition for IP Transition's arguments urging conditions on Verizon’s buy of Frontier (see 2504010070). “The Coalition doesn't identify any specific harms arising…
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from the merger,” Cooper blogged: “Under prevailing agency precedents (even if sometimes breached to achieve pro-regulatory ends), merger conditions may only be imposed to remedy transaction-specific harms.” May noted that “on its face,” the coalition’s filing “is addressed to matters pertaining to the entire voice services market.”