In Re Wireless Telephone Services Antitrust Litigation

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a number of digital technologies were introduced in the 1990s following the FCC's decision to decline to maintain a technological standard for digital service
• noting repeated determinations by the FCC that the wireless services market is competitive
• “The allegation that each of the defendants locks handsets sold for use on its respective network is perhaps the heart of the plaintiffs’ case.”
• “[T]he use of ‘outmoded’ handsets not only affects the quality of that subscriber’s service, but also diminishes the quality of service to other subscribers.”
• “[Digital service enabled wireless service producers to accommodate more users within any given amount of spectrum, thereby reducing their need to set up additional transmitters or cell sites.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).