As we told you last week, AT&T has formally kicked off its $39 billion bid for T-Mobile by filing the official merger paperwork with the Federal Communications Commission. We don't have access the the full materials, but AT&T posted a 381-page redacted executive summary (PDF) for public consumption.
To save you the bedtime reading--actually, it would take most of the night--we took the weekend to peruse the somewhat rambling, and occasionally amusing document. When it's not pounding home the argument that the merger is the only way to alleviate the spectrum constraints facing both carriers, AT&T spends time diminishing T-Mobile's competitive tole, extolling its own history, and wrapping itself in the flag (even President Obama's broadband goals get a nod). The carrier also has a lot of praise for its rivals. Even Sprint, which is aiming to stop the merger, is labeled as ... Read full post & comments
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