State AGs sue to block T-Mobile/Sprint

Spencer Parts

12 June 2019

In an unusual jump ahead of the Department of Justice, a group of state attorneys general has sued Sprint and T-Mobile to block the mobile carriers’ proposed merger of equals.

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