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