U.S. Files to Block AT&T, T-Mobile Merger

I couldn’t have said it better myself. “T-Mobile has been an important source of competition among the national carriers, including through innovation and quality enhancements such as the roll-out of the first nationwide high-speed data network,” Acting Assistant Attorney General Sharis A. Pozen said in a statement announcing the DOJ suit to block the deal. “Unless this merger is blocked, competition and innovation will be reduced, and consumers will suffer.”

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