Battle Lines Drawn Over AT&T, T-Mobile Deal

FCC receives more than 28,000 comments

The battle lines around AT&T's proposed $39 billion bid to buy T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom have now been fully drawn.

When the deadline for comments on the deal expired Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission had received more than 28,000 comments, most of them from consumers opposing the deal. More than 1,800 came in on Tuesday alone. The proposed sale has been a hot topic in Washington, as the sides had already begun to square off in statements and counterstatements, ads, websites, and blog smack downs.

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