No end in sight for T-Mo’s court battles
Of course, T-Mo has merely lost a battle here in a legal war that could go on for years and years, as the plaintiffs’ attorneys are not only asking for potentially tens of millions of consumers to receive a cut of a compensation possibly worth billions of dollars, but for the very 2020-sealed merger to be unsealed.
Did prices really go up in the last few years?
What this lawsuit has and all those pre-merger legal proceedings lacked for obvious reasons is clarity over what was initially the contentious matter of price fluctuations. There’s simply no denying that US mobile data costs on the whole have risen since 2020, but what lawyers may have a tricky time proving is that these price hikes are entirely (or at least primarily) T-Mobile‘s fault.
It’s important to point out that Verizon and AT&T are not actually involved in this legal case in any official fashion because, well, that would mean they’d have to admit to some pretty mischievous practices of their own. After all, no one forced T-Mo’s competitors to jack up their prices either before or after Sprint disappeared and thus industry competition shrank.
