Wayne Rash

It’s clear now that the flurry of the Kindle announcement is behind us that Amazon has learned a thing or two from another of the great success stories in American marketing. That other great success is Gillette, and the lesson its success teaches is that Gillette didn’t get rich selling razors. It got rich selling […]

Amazon’s soon-to-be-announced Kindle Fire (assuming that the blogosphere is right about the name) device will do a lot todemocratize the tablet market. The new Amazon model will put great pressure on the prices of Android-based tablets from other makers, meaning that Samsung, Motorola and others will be forced to lower their prices to something at […]

The Federal Communications Commission announced that the agency was asking for new data on the pricing and the competitive environment around the Special Access market.Special Access has come to the surface because of its inclusion as a major point in the antitrust complaints by Sprint and Cellular South in the AT&T-T-Mobile antitrust lawsuit. However, Special […]

Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S District Court for the District of Columbia set Feb. 13, 2012 as the starting date for the trial of the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit that seeks to permanently block AT&T’s $39 billion buyout of competing wireless telecommunications company T-Mobile.The date, selected by the judge during a Sept. […]

Cellular South, the largest privately held wireless carrier in the United States, has become the latest telecommunications companyto file an antitrust suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to stop the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile. Cellular South is based in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and the panhandle of Florida. The […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) sent a letter with 14 Congressional co-signers to President Barack Obama Sept. 15 demanding that he order regulators to settle the antitrust lawsuit that seeks to prevent the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile. The letter, drawn completely from AT&T’s playbook, parrots the claims that the merger would create […]

During the course of the last month, those of us in the Washington, D.C., area have dealt with our share of natural disasters. We had an earthquake that was relatively mild by West Coast standards, but it shut down a nuclear power plant that remains closed, it toppled the tops of the spires on National […]

AT&T filed its official response Sept. 9 to the antitrust lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice that seeks to prevent the company’s merger with T-Mobile. In the response, AT&T states the same arguments that it has been making all along-that the merger would be good for consumers, that it wouldn’t create higher prices, […]

Perhaps the most stunning revelation to come out of the mess surrounding the filing of antitrust lawsuits by theU.S. Department of Justice and Sprint Nextel is the fact that T-Mobile’s owner, Deutsche Telekom, apparently doesn’t have a Plan B. Apparently, it never occurred to DT’s German ownership that the U.S. government would have other ideas. […]

By many accounts, the improvements in technology use by the U.S. government following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have been few, expensive and mostly ineffective. Critics point to airport scanners that travelers hate and that have so far failed to uncover or foil new attacks. “Most of the innovation that has occurred is in protecting […]

WASHINGTON – Sprint Nextel filed an antitrust lawsuit against AT&T, Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile Sept. 6 in the federal district court for the District of Columbia, opening another front in the legal battle to block the proposedmerger of AT&T and T-Mobile. The suit alleges that the proposed merger is a violation of Section 7 of […]

When you see the outpouring of comments regardingthe antitrust lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Aug. 31 to block the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile, it brings to mind the line from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “Sound and fury, signifying nothing.” But in reality, the sentiments-pro and con-signify a […]