Activists Take On AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

Activist organization ColorOfChange.org has launched a new campaign against the AT&T/ T-Mobile merger, calling on the Federal Communications Commission to block the deal.

In a report on the proposed deal, Color of Change says “AT&T wants to buy T-Mobile – and it could have huge, negative consequences, especially for Black Americans.” The report outlines the potentially harmful economic effects the merger could have and questions the major civil rights groups that have come out in support of the merger. “The deal is likely to destroy jobs, raise the price of cellular service and threaten net neutrality for wireless high-speed Internet,” the report claims. “Protecting net neutrality for wireless broadband in increasingly important as more and more people use their phones to access the Internet, especially African Americans,” the report claims. Color of Change’s study says that combining the two companies would effectively get rid of the competition, causing a snowball of other problems to gather, and that false and deceptive arguments have been used to support the merger.