DALLAS:  AT&T has secured support from several key stakeholders in its pursuit to win approval from federal antitrust regulators of its $39 billion acquisition of Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA.

AT&T will likely need the help, as the marriage of the second- and fourth-largest wireless carriers is already facing opposition from competitor Sprint and a number of consumer groups, which argue the union is anti-competitive and could lead to job losses and higher prices.

The merged company would have 130 million ...