Senate Judiciary Announces Wireless Competition Hearing

With Sprint making overtures to a merger with T-Mobile, the Senate antitrust subcommittee will be holding a hearing next Wednesday entitled “An Examination of Competition in the Wireless Market.”  The witness list features:

• Eric Graham, SVP of Strategic Relations, Cellular South
• Randal Milch, EVP and GC, Verizon
• Jonathan Spalter, Chairman, Mobile Future
• Thomas Sugrue, SVP of Govt Affairs, T-Mobile USA
• Matthew Wood, Policy Director, Free Press

Additional details may be found here.

posted by Anant Raut

This Week in Congress

Thursday, June 6th

House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet holds a legislative hearing on H.R. 1123, the “Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act.”  Although not an antitrust bill, the draft legislation, introduced by Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) with bipartisan support, would essentially restore the ability of consumers to unlock their mobile phones for use on a wireless carrier of their choosing.  While this practice had been previously legal, changes that went into effect in January of this year now makes such a practice illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

10:00am @ 2141 Rayburn

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