Sprint and T-Mobile want to get married, but to gain the approval of US antitrust regulators, they'll have to make a pretty compelling case. The Justice Department and FCC declined to comment. The Justice Department objected to another telecommunications mega-merger last year when it sued to block AT&T from buying CNN's parent company, Time Warner. Both the FCC and the Justice Department blocked AT&T from buying T-Mobile in 2011. But the Justice Department was unimpressed and blocked the deal because it deemed it would harm competition.

Source: CNN April 30, 2018 18:00 UTC