در&T’s proposed acquisition of rival mobile carrier T-Mobile USA would give customers fewer choices and drive up prices, some U.S. lawmakers said Thursday.

Several members of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s competition subcommittee questioned during a hearing whether the U.S. وزارت دادگستری و U.S. Federal Communications Commission should allow the US$39 billion deal to happen. “I see absolutely no redeeming reason for this merger to go through,” said Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the full committee.

The merger could cost many jobs at the two companies and could lead to higher prices for mobile plans, Conyers said. “به طور معمول, at antitrust hearings, we get the promises that there won’t be losses of jobs and they won’t raise the rates,” او گفت :. “The thing I like about these witnesses is, they don’t even promise that. I thank you for your evasiveness on this issue.”

Conyers was talking to Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T, and Rene Obermann, CEO of Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile’s parent company. Stephenson and Obermann both told the subcommittee the acquisition would allow AT&T to roll out mobile broadband service faster across the country.

The merger would help AT&T deal with growing spectrum crunch, Stephenson said. The acquisition of T-Mobile’s cell towers would equal eight years of tower-building activities in San Francisco and Los Angeles, او گفت :.

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