# What a Sprint & T-Mobile Merger Means for Carriers and Consumers: Ratified

Published 2020-01-22 · Updated 2026-07-23 · Professional AV on MarketScale
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> By early February, we should know whether or not the carrier industry will be left with three key players: AT&T, Verizon, and on the horizon, a merged Sprint and T-Mobile. The merger, though it’s been approved by the DOJ and the FCC, has been tied up in a lawsuit issued by state attorneys general…

By early February, we should know whether or not the carrier industry will be left with three key players: AT&T, Verizon, and on the horizon, a merged Sprint and T-Mobile.

The merger, though it’s been approved by the DOJ and the FCC, has been tied up in a lawsuit issued by state attorneys general from over a dozen states, who claim the merger would be anti-competitive for the carrier market.

Why are the two companies, Sprint and T-Mobile, trying to merge, what’s the context behind the lawsuit, and what are the potential long-lasting effects for the industry?

On this episode of Ratified, a MarketScale show on the intersection of business and policy, Voice of B2B [Daniel Litwin](https://marketscale.com/industries/contributors/daniel-litwin/) dives into the proposed merger of the mobile giants and the implications such a merger would have on the wider world of communication.

Litwin was joined by [Lawrence J. White](https://marketscale.com/industries/contributors/lawrence-j-white/), a Robert Kavesh Professor of Economics at the [NYU Stern School of Business](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/), and by [Hugh Odom](https://marketscale.com/industries/contributors/hugh-d-odom/), who serves as the president of cell-tower consulting firm [Vertical Consultants](https://www.celltowerleaseexperts.com/). Odom also served as an attorney for AT&T’s Western U.S. Region for a decade.

White, with his extensive expertise in anti-trust economics, offered his perspective on the specifics of the U.S. Department of Justice’s proposed remedy, the reversal of initial pushback from the DOJ via the addition of Dish as a fourth carrier, and why White views the proposed solution as insufficient.

Odom then joined Litwin to offer the industry’s perspective – as an expert knee-deep in the telecom industry, Odom spoke to the potential positive and negative impacts of such a high-profile merger, how carriers, infrastructure and consumers will feel the effects of the partnership, and more.

For more on Ratified, follow [Daniel Litwin](https://marketscale.com/industries/contributors/daniel-litwin/) on Twitter at [@VoiceOfB2B](https://twitter.com/VoiceOfB2B) and subscribe to MarketScale Radio on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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