T-Mobile Fails to End Customer Antitrust Claims Over Sprint Deal

T-Mobile US Inc. will face antitrust claims over its $26 billion acquisition of Sprint Corp. after an appeals court denied its bid to appeal a lower court ruling.

In a Thursday ruling, the Seventh Circuit rejected T-Mobile’s request to appeal a district court decision that gave the customer plaintiffs antitrust standing to argue the deal led to higher prices.

The ruling is a setback for T-Mobile, which completed its deal with Sprint in 2020 and has faced intense scrutiny from federal and state authorities, including the Federal Communications Commission, the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, state attorneys general, and ...