In a bid to get regulators to approve the T-Mobile merger, Sprint puts down its own LTE network

T-Mobile and Sprint are awaiting regulatory approval for their $26.5 billion merger from the FCC and FTC. The FCC might have painted itself into a corner the other day by passing rules that force state and local governments to decide quickly whether or not to allow carriers to deploy 5G technology within their borders. The FCC says that this must be done to keep U.S. leadership of 5G technology. This is the same argument that T-Mobile and Sprint have made as to why their merger should be allowed to close.

However, when dealing with U.S. regulatory agencies, it is always ...