From the NYT:
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission took steps Tuesday to block the proposed $39 billion merger of the mobile phone companies AT&T and T-Mobile USA.... Consumer groups and competitors argue that far more jobs would be eliminated by the merger. And, they add, the $8 billion in new AT&T capital expenditures is less than what AT&T and T-Mobile will spend separately.... David Neumark, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine and director of its Center for Economics and Public Policy, who was commissioned by Sprint to review the union's research, said that while the merger was likely to offer more and higher-paying jobs for C.W.A. members, over all "it will almost surely act to directly reduce jobs for American workers."

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