Now, T-Mobile and Sprint expect the U.S. panel, called Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), to approve their deal as early as next week, the sources said.The sources, however, cautioned that negotiations between the two companies and the U.S. government have not been finalized yet, and any deal could still fall through. They asked not to be identified because the matter is confidential.Sprint, T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, SoftBank and CFIUS declined to comment. Several telecom operators in Europe and Australia have said they will exclude the Chinese firm from their fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks.The pressure on Huawei has already heightened tensions between the United States and China over trade. U.S. prosecutors have accused her of misleading multinational banks about Huawei’s control of a company operating in Iran. T-Mobile previously said it expected the deal to close in the first half of 2019.

Source: Egypt Today December 15, 2018 12:56 UTC