Well surprise… no surprise? AT&T has officially filed in court to counter the Department of Justice’s suit to stop the AT&T-T-Mobile merger. Their contention is that the government just doesn’t understand what real competition is.
https://gizmodo.com/the-government-probably-just-killed-the-at-t-t-mobile-m-5836158
The Justice Department is, understandably, up in arms against the deal because it stands to stifle competition between carriers and slow innovation. AT&T disagree, since competing with T-Mobile was never a fair fight anyway. Ouch. T-Mo’s been losing money in recent yeats, and isn’t in a position to innovate. Meanwhile, AT&T’s… been losing money, too, despite billions spent to grow out their infrastructure. But buying T-Mobile will allow them to provide better service, create more jobs, yada yada everything they’ve said before so they can skirt their inevitable network apocalypse.
https://gizmodo.com/i-just-dont-give-a-shit-about-at-ts-manufactured-networ-5830489
Truthfully, AT&T has no choice but to fight and they know it. A lot of money is riding on this deal. Backing down was never an option. [AP]
