Statement by Ralph Nader and James Love on MCI/Sprint Merger

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

Statement by Ralph Nader and James Love on MCI/Sprint Merger

fmi: 202.387.8030, love@cptech.org, http://www.cptech.org


If MCI and Sprint attempt to merge, the Consumer Project on
Technology will ask the Department of Justice to stop the merger
on the grounds that it will reduce competition in the long
distance telephony market and harm consumers.  MCI has already
used its merger with Worldcom to delay the benefits of
competition, and this merger would harm consumers even more.

As a result of competition, prices in long distance for consumers
are falling. We think this is a good thing.  The merger would
seek to limit competition and slow the rate of decline in long
distance prices. 

 
-- 
James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
I can be reached at love@cptech.org, by telephone 202.387.8030,
by fax at 202.234.5176. CPT web page is http://www.cptech.org