AT&T Asks Court to Dismiss Sprint, Cellular South Lawsuits

Written by administrator on October 1st, 2011

AT&T Asks Court to Dismiss Sprint, Cellular South Lawsuits
News from BusinessWeek:
October 01, 2011, 12:25 AM EDT

By Tom Schoenberg and Sara Forden

Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) — AT&T Inc. urged a court to dismiss Sprint Nextel Corp. and Cellular South Inc. lawsuits alleging its proposed purchase of wireless carrier T-Mobile USA Inc. would be anticompetitive, saying the deal would actually boost competition.

AT&T asked a federal judge in Washington yesterday to throw out the suits, claiming Sprint, the third-biggest U.S. wireless operator, and Cellular South, the ninth-largest wireless carrier by customers, failed to show the deal would hurt competition or impair access to networks needed to serve their customers.

“Sprint knows that competition will be enhanced, not harmed, by the combination of AT&T and T-Mobile and that a post- merger AT&T — freed of spectrum shortages that impair its ability to offer customers better services at lower…………… continues on BusinessWeek
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