LIVE: This Merger Sucks, and Here’s Why

Hi There,

T-Mobile and Sprint have spun a web of lies to make us think their proposed merger is a good thing.

Here’s the truth: This merger would drive up prices and disproportionately harm low-income communities as well as people of color who rely the most on these companies’ lower-priced services for phone and internet.

Right now Free Press Action, the Center for Media Justice and Common Cause are debunking lies and myths about the T-Mobile/Sprint merger that are swirling around the internet. Tune in!

Tune into the livestream and hear from speakers like Erin Shields of the Center for Media Justice, Yosef Getachew of Common Cause, and Gaurav Laroia, Carmen Scurato and Collette Watson of Free Press Action.

We’ll also be reading and responding to some of the “mean tweets” we’ve gotten about our opposition to the merger. Join us for a few laughs — and some real facts and figures — as we set the record straight about runaway consolidation in the telecom market.

After you check out the livestream, join our tweetstorm about the merger. All you have to do is log in to your Twitter account and then click one of the tweets below to send:

• MYTH: The T-Mobile/Sprint merger will magically lead to more choices, more innovation and even more investment and jobs.
FACT: Store closings will lead to layoffs, the pace of innovation won’t change and affordable plans will disappear. Tell the @FCC to #StopTmobileSprint and protect competition. https://act.freepress.net/go/27465?t=7&akid=11382%2E10296224%2EYU-4kf

• .@JohnLegere told @BusinessInsider he wanted @TMobile to become “...the complete opposite of the other carriers in this industry, becoming the 'Un-carrier.'” Now he wants to merge with Sprint and become another AT&T. Help #StopTmobileSprint: https://act.freepress.net/go/27465?t=9&akid=11382%2E10296224%2EYU-4kf

Thanks for all that you do—

Lucia, Collette, Nilda and the rest of the Free Press Action Fund team
freepress.net

P.S. The T-Mobile/Sprint deal would expand the digital divide and be a disaster for consumers, especially low-income communities and people of color who rely on T-Mobile’s and Sprint’s affordable services. Tune into our livestream to learn more about the T-Mobile/Sprint merger and how to stop it.

Free Press Action Fund is a nonpartisan organization fighting for your rights to connect and communicate. Free Press Action Fund does not support or oppose any candidate for public office. Learn more at freepress.net.

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