Very Competitive Mobile Market In US: FCC

CTIA has filed a letter with the FCC promoting the competitiveness of the US mobile marketplace and refuting the “circulating myths” about the European mobile marketplace being more advanced. The intent is to help its more powerful members in their fight against any possible open access provisions which may be included in the upcoming spectrum auctions. To some extent the CTIA is right — the US isn’t as far behind the rest of the world as is generally believed. In other respects they miss the point…Perhaps the biggest issue with the letter is the idea that if the US is doing well on all the indicators below it doesn’t need improving. “Based on the information contained in this ex parte, consumers would be harmed considerably if the United States wireless market moved in any way toward the European wireless market model” writes CTIA, with absolutely no evidence to back it up. It could be that the open access provisions will improve the market even further.

–“The price per minute of service in the United States is lower than every European country, without exception

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