Sprint, Others Ask FCC to Deny AT&T Deal for T-Mobile

[JBeukema]

IDG News Service — Sprint Nextel (S), joined by an army of thousands of consumers, have filed requests for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to block AT&T's proposed acquisition of rival mobile carrier T-Mobile USA.
The US$39 billion acquisition would create a "Twin Bell duopoly," giving AT&T and Verizon Communications (VZ) a combined 82 percent of the mobile market in the country, Sprint said Tuesday. Approval of the acquisition would take the U.S. mobile market back to the 1980s, when only two carriers had mobile licenses in each area, Sprint said in its 377-page filing.

Sprint, Others Ask FCC to Deny AT&T Deal for T-Mobile CIO.com