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T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Clock to Resume Dec. 4

November 19, 2018

Via: eWeek
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The T-Mobile-Sprint merger shot clock is set to start counting again at Day 55, following a brief comment period opened by the Federal Communications Commission. The comment period ends on Dec. 4, and the shot clock will begin counting then. The FCC typically pauses merger considerations when the applicants submit a substantial quantity of new information that the FCC staff needs to study.

In this case, T-Mobile and Sprint submitted new economic and engineering models on Sept. 5, 2018, at which point the shot clock was paused. The FCC uses an informal period for consideration of mergers, which it calls a shot clock. A merger as significant as the one between T-Mobile and Spring gets a 180-day shot clock. The commission plans to make a decision within that period of time.

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