In 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice and the states of Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, and South Dakota brought a civil antitrust suit opposing the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint. According to the lawsuit, consolidating nationwide carriers from four to three would reduce competition to an unacceptable degree, ultimately harming consumers. To resolve the complaint,
Late last month, the FCC adopted a Report and Order granting SprintNextel flexibility to channelize its area-wide assignments in the ESMR portion of the 800 MHz band (817-824/862-869 MHz) to accommodate CDMA and LTE technologies. Even though the SprintNextel merger proved a terrible deal for Sprint shareholders, as noted recently by David Goldman, as