by fflima | Oct 17, 2012 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Legislation/Regulations, Technology
On October 15, Japanese tech titan SoftBank announced that it will acquire 70% of Sprint Nextel. The $20.1 billion deal will allow Sprint to compete with the two largest American wireless companies, Verizon and AT&T, by providing Sprint with $8 billion in new...
by Kimberly Gelfand | Sep 17, 2011 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News
The often-overlooked Sprint made two majors moves this week to take center stage in the “battle of the telecoms.” Sprint began the week by filing a suit on behalf of “consumers and competition” against both AT&T and T-Mobile in response to the...
by rotchadl | Apr 3, 2011 | Commentary
Last week’s announcement that AT&T is buying T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion should raise serious antitrust concerns with regulators analyzing the deal under the horizontal merger guidelines of the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission....
