Judge Is Said to Rule for T-Mobile Merger With Sprint

Reported today on The New York Times For the full article visit: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/business/media/sprint-tmobile-merger.html?emc=rss&partner=rss BREAKINGJudge Is Said to Rule for T-Mobile Merger With SprintA last-ditch attempt by a coalition of state attorneys general is said to have failed to halt T-Mobile\'s purchase of a smaller rival.The judge in a contentious lawsuit that tried to stop the long-in-the-works merger between T-Mobile and Sprint is planning to rule in favor of the deal, according to three people briefed on the matter.The verdict will come at the end of an unusual suit filed in June by attorneys general from 13 states and the District of Columbia. The challenge came after federal regulators gave their blessing to the deal, which would combine the nation\'s third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers and create a new telecommunications giant to take on the two largest, AT&T and Verizon. The states argued that the combin