Additionally, the combined company will make available at least 20,000 cell sites and hundreds of retail locations to Dish Network.
Furthermore, T-Mobile will provide Dish Network with robust access to its network for seven years while the
Moreover, the settlement requires T-Mobile and Sprint to quickly deploy multiple high-quality 5G networks.
In a statement, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, “With this merger and accompanying divestiture, we are expanding output significantly by ensuring that large amounts of currently unused or underused spectrum are made available to American consumers in the form of high quality 5G networks.”
He added, “Today’s settlement will provide Dish with the assets and transitional services required to become a facilities-based mobile network operator that can provide a full range of mobile wireless services nationwide.”
