Friday, March 29, 2019

Sprint/T-Mobile Merger


Telecom stocks are tanking following reports of potential setbacks in the Sprint, T-Mobile deal




The US has four national wireless carriers, Verizon and AT&T are the 2 largest with T-Mobile and Sprint farther behind the top two. Both T-Mobile and Sprint have said that they need a merger to be able to compete. In the new report, they state that “U.S. regulators are skeptical of Sprint's argument that it would not be able to compete effectively with other telecom companies if the merger was blocked”.
The political arguments and rhetoric seem to have put many businesses at risk with any future. The article stated that the FCC has halted any actions with the following statement “FCC paused the informal 180-day "shot clock" to review the $26 billion merger deal earlier this month to allow more time for the public to comment on the deal”.

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