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DOJ Approves T-Mobile’s Latest Merger Despite Admitting It’s Terrible For Consumers And Competition


One of the bigger Trump election season lies was that Trump 2.0 would be “serious about antitrust,” and protect blue collar Americans from corporate predation. You’d have to be a …

Yet when push comes to shove, Slater either lacks the courage or the ability to actually stop additional mergers in U.S. telecom, which is the poster child for the very real-world harms of such mindless consolidation. There’s a lot of effort put into pretending that the U.S. wireless market is vibrant and competitive, but it only takes a trip overseas — where 5G is faster and prices are lower — to realize that the whole thing is an elaborate con that’s been normalized. Trump authoritarianism is the textbook definition of corruption, any deal with the regime is destined to go badly for people who live in the real world, and any official or policy expert who couldn’t see all of this coming a mile away should never be taken seriously again.

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