"[AT&T] told the US government to stay out of wireless — meaning don't regulate prices or impose Net neutrality — while also asking the government for more spectrum. You know the contradiction: The government is good when it gives you free or cheap services"
Unfortunately, we're falling victim to the mindtrap that the government "owns" the electromagnetic spectrum in a specific jurisdiction, which is about as laughable as thinking it owns the weather. ATT is consisstent in asking the government to relax control over the spectrum, and relax control over the company. It's not asking the government for a handout.
MESSAGE ACKNOWLEDGED -- The Pershing II missiles have been launched.