Losing on the Facts, AT&T Turns to Smears

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-saldana/losing-on-the-facts-att-t_b_933576.html

A cornered animal is a dangerous thing. It will scratch. It will bite. It will lash out desperately in any direction to escape its predicament. And so it is that AT&T swings wildly as its $39 billion bid for T-Mobile unravels.

AT&T's deception about the need to take over T-Mobile is now in the public realm for good, exposed by its own accidental publication of an unredacted internal document on the Federal Communications Commission website. That document showed that AT&T could bring the fastest wireless service to the whole country on its own -- and for a tenth of the price it would pay to take over T-Mobile.

This isn't the first gaping hole to appear in AT&T's case. The company is already on its third "new model" explaining the benefits of the deal, because the FCC found the first two so lacking. And despite AT&T's transparent attempts to spin the Beltway press, key members of Congress and more and more consumers are pushing the FCC and the Department of Justice to reject the merger bid because of its obvious harms to competition, jobs and our wallets.

AT&T's response is not to come up with better arguments and better data that prove the merit of its claims. AT&T is instead smearing Free Press because we had the audacity to point out that AT&T's own data actually contradict its claims.

More at the link --

[DirkGently]

1. Wow. Unsurprising, but galling all the same. Kicked for visibility.

[Javaman]

2. AT& T, formally SWBELL of Texas, is a gigantic, no let me rephrase that...

GIGANTIC contributor to the repukes.

any surprise they are assholes?

[REP]

3. 'Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt' is a selling technique they push their CSRs to use

Why not try it on the public?