I think in this case, the decision was to either allow the merger and create a three way competition with AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint/T-Mobile, or watch as AT&T a

I think in this case, the decision was to either allow the merger and create a three way competition with AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint/T-Mobile, or watch as AT&T and Verizon slowly pushed out Sprint and T-Mobile. Sprint was mostly dead by this time. T-Mobile got a jump start due to innovation in the consumer space, but that was dying out. Instead, by allowing the merger, we have a viable third company to compete with AT&T and Verizon.