T-Mobile pays ex-FCC commissioner to lobby for Sprint merger
by Jon Brodkin from Ars Technica - All content on (#3PV0P)
Enlarge / Former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 17, 2014 during a hearing on net neutrality. (credit: Getty Images | Win McNamee )
Readers of Fortune on Monday were treated to an op-ed titled "I'm a Former FCC Commissioner, and I Think the T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Is Great for America."
The author is Robert McDowell, a Republican who served on the Federal Communications Commission from 2006 to 2013. McDowell's position on T-Mobile's $26 billion purchase of Sprint is no surprise because T-Mobile is paying him to help secure government approval of the merger.
"I currently serve as an advisor to T-Mobile," McDowell disclosed in his op-ed.
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