T-Mobile (TMUS) and Sprint (S) won clearance to merge from a federal judge Tuesday, sending T-Mobile shares up 12%, and Sprint shares up 77.5% by close of trading yesterday.Rejecting arguments by a group of state attorneys general that allowing the companies to merge would encourage anticompetitive behavior, U.S. District Court Judge Victor Marrero demurred that to the contrary, T-Mobile’s “maverick” ways have historically forced “the two largest players in its industry to make numerous pro-consumer changes” to compete with it. In the judge’s view, allowing the merger will in fact help “to continue T-Mobile’s undeniably successful business strategy for the …read more
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