Two years ago I was busy debunking AT&T's claims that eliminating T-Mobile from the market would somehow magically improve competition. The deal was blocked, and now T-Mobile is successfully disrupting the wireless industry on numerous fronts, from their new Jump device payment plans (very quickly copied by their three competitors) to this week's interesting decision to offer free international data roaming.
Ryan Chittum at the Columbia Journalism Review argues that T-Mobile's recent successes (they're now taking two customers from AT&T for every one customer AT&T takes from them) highlight why antitrust enforcement remains important in an age where there's an endless drum beat for weaker regulators and deregulation:
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