Daily Digest 2/14/2019 (Little Love for T-Mobile/Sprint)
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Thu, 02/14/2019
The Trump Administration releases the American Broadband Initiative report and T-Mobile and Sprint executives defend their planned merger
‘These maps are bogus’: US lawmakers tear into telecom execs over spotty rural coverage
Members of Congress are fed up with the state of cellphone coverage in the United States and they weren’t afraid to lodge their complaints personally — with the leaders of some of the country’s biggest wireless networks. As Sprint and T-Mobile went to Capitol Hill to defend their $26 billion proposed merger, lawmakers buttonholed T-Mobile’s chief executive, John Legere, and Sprint’s executive chairman, Marcelo Claure, on the frustrating inability to get a cell signal in many parts of the country, particularly in rural areas.
