AT&T to Respond to Critics

FCC filing will stress broad support for T-Mobile merger

AT&T will respond Friday to critics of their proposed merger with T-Mobile in a 200-page brief filed with the Federal Communications Commission as part of the regulator's review of $39 billion transaction.

Opponents, which have been fanning the flames since the first FCC filing deadline on May 31, will get one more shot at the merger on June 20, the regulator's final filing deadline.

By now, most everyone inside the Beltway following AT&T's blockbuster deal to acquire T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom knows the arguments, which are, in a nutshell, that it would create a duopoly between AT&T and Verizon, which would hurt consumers.

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