Verizon, AT&T subscribers ask a court to reverse T-Mobile’s acquisition of Sprint،
Many consumers in the United States couldn’t understand why T-Mobile would pay more than $26 billion for Sprint when the latter was mired in last place among the country’s four major wireless carriers. But T Mobile was not looking to buy Sprint’s operations. What T Mobile What it wanted was Sprint’s holdings in the 2.5GHz mid-band spectrum that it wanted to use to get ahead of its rivals in 5G.
Mid-band spectrum may not be as fast as the mmWave spectrum that Verizon and AT&T have started using to build 5G, but it goes further. Although very few AT&T and Verizon subscribers could connect to mmWave 5G (which remains true to this day), many others T Mobile subscribers found themselves connected to T Mobile‘s mid-range 5G service, which was much faster than domestic 5G. AT&T and Verizon saw their mistake and spent a lot of money licensing their own mid-band airwaves in the C-band.
Plaintiffs want judge to overturn T-Mobile’s acquisition of Sprint
Friday, Reuters said a federal judge had ordered T Mobile face AT&T in court and Verizon subscribers who complain that T MobileSprint’s acquisition reduced competition in the U.S. wireless industry, forcing them to pay billions of dollars more for wireless service. To prevent the number of major wireless service providers in the United States from falling from four to three after the T Mobile-Sprint deal, Dish Network promised to replace Sprint, which allowed the deal to be approved by the FCC.
A 41-page ruling by U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin said that the plaintiff’s argument that the price increase in the sector was a direct consequence of the merger was plausible. The plaintiffs want to “unwind” T Mobile-Acquired Sprint, created a fourth major wireless competitor, and recovered the amount of money they claim they were overcharged for. The accused, T MobileDeutsche Telekom and SoftBank Group have filed for dismissal.
Judge Durkin granted SoftBank’s request to be removed from the case, but T Mobile and Deutsche Telekom, T MobileThe largest shareholder of , will seek to defend itself in court. T Mobile called the lawsuit “unprecedented” and the plaintiffs’ damages “speculative.” Lawyers for the nation’s second-largest carrier said: “If plaintiffs are not satisfied with Verizon and AT&T, there is a remedy available in the highly competitive market that wireless consumers enjoy today: they should switch to T Mobiledon’t sue him.
