Edward Wyatt’s piece this morning, “Shifts in Wireless Market May Sway a Sprint Deal,” examines how the evolving mobile and wireless markets affect the prospects for a possible Sprint and T-Mobile merger. PPI’s senior fellow Hal Singer is quoted commenting on how the lines separating once discrete markets seem to be fading, and whether this trend affects the deal’s chances:
If regulators continue to see the wireless and wireline business as discrete markets, they will continue to be skeptical,” said Hal J. Singer, a principal at Economists Incorporated and a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute. “But if they can be convinced that the lines between wireless and wireline are beginning to blur,” there might be a chance for a merger to be approved, he said.
You can read the full article on The New York Times website, here.
