Verizon Keeps Mum on Opponents Cartel Claims
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Then, Verizon uses the words of T-Mobiles own parent company against it. In
fact, the only news here is the odd disconnect between T-Mobiles regulatory
arguments and the business presentations of its parent company, Deutsche
Telekom AG. Twice in the last two weeks, Deutsche Telekoms chief financial officer
has relayed to investors the companys optimistic view of T-Mobiles future in the U.S. market:
Furthermore, Verizon suggests that T-Mobiles PowerPoint presentation contains
bogus data. T-Mobiles presentation recycles its time-worn arguments about the
deal. Once again, T-Mobile handpicks particular bands it calls 'LTE spectrum'
to concoct the argument that Verizon Wireless holds, or will hold, excessive
amounts of spectrum.
While suggesting that T-Mobile may have created some nice slides, Verizons
filing suggests all the company is really doing is diverting attention from
real measures of network efficiency. T-Mobiles most recent efficiency
argument is limited to one PowerPoint slide. That showing apparently is
designed to present a pretty visual for regulators and, perhaps, to obscure
that its claim rests on outlier assumptions divorced from any widely accepted
industry efficiency standard or legitimate means to measure network capacity or
efficiency.
Verizons statement that T-Mobile is relying on recycled versions of previously
rebutted claims underscores the level of the attack against T-Mobile. They
have been unable to establish any legitimate basis to deny or condition the
proposed license Assignments, Verizon says in its closing statement.
So far T-Mobile hasnt responded to Verizons latest round of charges, which is
expected since creating an ex parte filing takes a few days.
While Verizon has made some strong arguments against T-Mobiles opposition to
its application to buy spectrum from Comcast, Cox, Time Warner and other cable
companies, it has not addressed the overarching complaint of the Alliance
members that the company is trying to create an Internet cartel. Partly, this
is because Verizon is focusing its argument on what is probably the most
credible opposition and partly because some of the other filings by Alliance
members have yet to fully address the issue of Internet access control by a
Verizon-led cartel.
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- [W]e will have an LTE [Long-Term Evolution] offer, which is competitive enough with all the players in the U.S. market and will be launched next year.
- And by the way, at the end of the day for almost every market, we have two times 10MHz of LTE. This is giving us a clear path until 2017, 2018, whatever projection you might take with regards to data consumption on a standalone basis.
- [T]he Android market is growing nicely here in the U.S., as well. We could tap this potential. We have an empty network. We have fiber links in the backhaul. So therefore, we could really play with this capacity. And we know how huge this uptick, this growth of data is in the U.S. market. So therefore we have a clear challenger strategy as we call it here for the U.S. market.
- There is no need for us to enter into any kind of deal through at least 2018.
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Wayne Rash is a Senior Analyst for eWEEK Labs and runs the magazine's Washington Bureau. Prior to joining eWEEK as a Senior Writer on wireless technology, he was a Senior Contributing Editor and previously a Senior Analyst in the InfoWorld Test Center. He was also a reviewer for Federal Computer Week and Information Security Magazine. Previously, he ran the reviews and events departments at CMP's InternetWeek.He is a retired naval officer, a former principal at American Management Systems and a long-time columnist for Byte Magazine. He is a regular contributor to Plane & Pilot Magazine and The Washington Post.
