With FCC Review Looming, AT&T, T-Mobile Spend Big on Lobbying

If the lobbying disclosure reports they filed for the first quarter of this year are any indication, AT&T and T-Mobile are ready to empty out their piggy banks if that's what it takes to get AT&T's $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile cleared by regulators and Congress. By the end of the regulatory review process, the two telecom companies could make what Comcast and NBCU spent to grease the skids for their own deal look like chump change.