Another Merger

[Commentary] In a filing at the Federal Communications Commission on AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile, the Competitive Enterprise Institute said:

• AT&T will be able to use T-Mobile cell sites and spectrum in order to address increases in traffic. This increased spectrum will also allow AT&T to expand its LTE coverage to underserved rural areas.
• Operating system (OS) vendors and device manufacturers will constrain the power of network operators. Network operators are consolidating in order to have enough scale and power in order to fight back. (The battle is vertical, not horizontal.)
• The special access/backhaul market is highly competitive. Don't worry about incumbents’ market power there.
• Don't impose conditions. You'll just stifle investment. Uncertainty and delay will harm the public.

A post on cracked.com says that the rich are underserved by monopolistic carriers; poor/rural are often unserved. Internet access is more essential than phone services ever were, because quality of life/livelihoods/access to services depend on it. Offline equivalents are disappearing.
Think of all the jobs we could create with a combination of regulatory reforms and a major open-fiber infrastructure project nationwide for areas that aren't served. Not just the jobs that have to do with digging up the streets (although we'd have a lot of those). We'd be building a basic building block for the country’s future. Instead, because we think there is little we can do, we do little. Other than merge.