Sprint, T-Mobile merger would cut employee pay, even at Verizon and AT&T, study says [telecom]

By Mark Davis

A merger between Sprint and T-Mobile would cut into the wages of wireless store employees - including those working at Verizon, AT&T and all four companies' authorized dealer stores, according to a study released Monday.

Average weekly earnings for these retail workers "would decline by as much as 7 percent" and between 1 percent and 3 percent "in the bulk" of the markets affected by the merger, the report released by the Economic Policy Institute and the Roosevelt Institute said.