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Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst By Jasmin Melvin WASHINGTON | Thu Aug 4, 2011 12:56pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Republican senators urged U.S. officials to consider the benefits of AT&T Inc's $39 billion bid to acquire Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile USA. Mike Lee, the top Republican on the Senate's antitrust subcommittee, and colleague John Cornyn, sent a letter to the U.S. Justice Department and Federal Communications Commission, urging them to consider all the available evidence before deciding whether the transaction should go through. The senators cited the faster fourth generation service that AT&T has said it can rollout faster to more customers if the merger is approved. The deal could also spur handset innovation and development of new applications, the senators said in the letter dated Wednesday. The antitrust panel's Democratic chairman, Senator Herb Kohl, urged authorities last month to block the deal, saying there were no effective remedies that the companies could offer to stop the merger's harm to consumers and competition. If approved as proposed, the merger would concentrate 80 percent of the U.S. wireless market in just two companies: AT&T/T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless, a venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc. AT&T argues the purchase of T-Mobile will help it expand faster service to more customers. Critics charge that less competition will increase prices and limit consumer choice. Lee and Cornyn said the deal could be of great help to the quality of mobile broadband service in the United States, improving network capacity and increasing data speeds. "The testimony and materials presented to the Antitrust Subcommittee highlight potential benefits to consumers that deserve meaningful attention," they said in their letter. Representative Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a similar letter earlier this week to the two government agencies. The Justice Department is conducting an antitrust review, and the FCC is weighing whether the transaction is in the public interest. Lawmakers have no direct role in reviewing the merger that was proposed in March, but Congress, through oversight of the regulators, and by holding hearings on such deals, can influence the climate of public opinion. A Yankee Group study released this week said that without strong regulatory provisions to protect the public, the deal will reduce consumer choice and lead to higher prices. (Reporting by Jasmin Melvin; Editing by Tim Dobbyn) Politics Technology Deals 2011 Q2 Global Deals Review - Parent folder Inflows Outflows Regulatory News Related Quotes and News Company Price Related News Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (2) Stupidscript wrote: Not to put too fine a point on it … but WTF do two Republican Senators know about corporate mergers, and how is it their business to encourage (or discourage) such a merger in a public forum? I understand that they were appealing to the Senate committee that is deciding whether to approve the merger, or not, but sending the committee their recommendation including how the business will be able to provide better service, etc. is strictly lobbyist talk. The focus of anti-trust committees MUST be on the effects of such mergers on the industry as a whole, not whether the merger will result in a single company that does things differently (better?) than they did, before. This blatant display of quid pro quo lobbying disgusts me, as it should every single American who cares about Democracy. Aug 04, 2011 3:12pm EDT -- Report as abuse LEEDAP wrote: Of course there will be innovation if this deal goes through– innovative new monopolization! You can count Sprint out of the equation if the cell phone field dwindled to two giants and one puny little nothing of a competitor. Consumers will loose, too. AT&T just wants to kill T-Mobile because killing it will increase their margins more than letting the agile low cost leader eat into AT&T’s business. Now whose payroll are Mike Lee and John Cornyn on anyway? Aug 04, 2011 4:03pm EDT -- Report as abuse See All Comments » Add Your Comment Social Stream (What's this?) 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