The carrier M&A rumor mill is again spinning at full speed. This time, according to the Wall Street Journal, Sprint is revisiting the idea of acquiring of T-Mobile, something Sprint wasn’t in position to do before SoftBank took control of the company. The Journal’s unnamed sources said Sprint is only weighing a bid and hasn’t decided whether the deal would meet the regulatory test. Since the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice shot down AT&T-Mo in 2011, regulators have let big acquisitions through, such as T-Mobile’s acquisition of MetroPCS, but no one has attempted to combine any of the big four nationwide operators.
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