Pizza Rendezvous and Odd Bedfellows: How T-Mobile Won Sprint (1)

T-Mobile US Inc. on Wednesday completed its $26.5 billion acquisition of Sprint Corp., a yearslong saga that included a stare-down with U.S. antitrust officials, a court battle with state attorneys general, and a pandemic that has brought the nation to a near-standstill.

While the Covid-19 crisis is far from over, Sprint Chairman Marcelo Claure said in an interview last week that the new T-Mobile is arriving at a good time to offer lower-priced wireless options to consumers battered by economic damage.

“This will be a tough crisis for the world and Americans to absorb,” Claure said. “But at the ...