WASHINGTON: The fight over the legality of AT&T's $39-billion bid to acquire T-Mobile USA has just begun. But the battle lines from a communications perspective have already been drawn.
Last week, Sprint – the third-largest player in the wireless telecoms market behind AT&T and Verizon – added its weight to the Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit against AT&T, with one of its own opposing the proposed merger. It has also been buying full-page ads in newspapers like The Washington Post, ...