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March 20, 2011<\/p>\n
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Contact: NCL Communications, (202) 835-3323, media@nclnet.org<\/p>\n
Washington, D.C. \u2013 The National Consumers League, the country\u2019s pioneering consumer organization, today called on the FCC and Department of Justice to vigorously review the proposed AT&T-T-Mobile USA merger to ensure that the public interest is protected.<\/p>\n
The following statement is attributable to Sally Greenberg, Executive Director of the National Consumers League:<\/p>\n
\u201cConsumers rarely win when there are fewer choices.\u00a0 The potential for additional wireless industry consolidation posed by this deal is greatly troubling.\u00a0 Competition between multiple carriers has driven much of the consumer benefit in the wireless industry over the past decade.\u00a0 This merger threatens that competition by potentially reducing the number of major national carriers from four to three. We therefore urge the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission to closely scrutinize this deal to ensure that the public interest — not the bottom lines of wireless giants \u2013 is protected.”<\/p>\n
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About the National Consumers League<\/strong><\/p>\n Founded in 1899, the National Consumers League\u00a0is America\u2019s pioneer consumer organization. Its mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. NCL is a private, nonprofit membership organization. For more information, visit\u00a0www.nclnet.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 20, 2011 Contact: NCL Communications, (202) 835-3323, media@nclnet.org Washington, D.C. \u2013 The National Consumers League, the country\u2019s pioneering consumer organization, today called on the FCC and Department of Justice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11071,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/11071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}