Party Lines on AT&T, T-Mobile Deal Taking Shape

Democrat provides the only fireworks at House hearing

WASHINGTON—A hearing on AT&T's proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile that the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet held Thursday didn’t unearth anything new in the ongoing debate over the merger. Most of the ground had already been covered a week and a half ago on the Senate side. And, like a politician on the stump, Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T, even delivered the same presentation.

Still, the hearing did provide a look at the way opinions on the deal have crystallized along party lines.

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