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Can T-Mobile, Sprint Pull off Merger Under New Administration?

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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai during the Inaugural Agriculture and Rural Prosperity Task Force Meeting on June 15, 2017. Photo: Flickr/USDA.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai during the Inaugural Agriculture and Rural Prosperity Task Force Meeting on June 15, 2017. Photo: Flickr/USDA.

A new administration is giving T-Mobile and Sprint hopes of reviving its merger plans. The companies announced Sunday they are trying again to get approval for a merger after aborting their original plans in 2014. The companies say the combined entity would challenge leaders AT&T and Verizon, and be able to build a nationwide 5G network but critics aren’t buying this argument.

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