DOJ and participating states filed a settlement requiring prepaid operations, spectrum, sites, and transitional network access to be made available to Dish as part of the T-Mobile-Sprint transaction.
Creates a policy anchor for the post-merger market structure. Later FCC HHI observations can be compared in time, but the observatory does not infer that the settlement caused a measured HHI change.
Exact named-organization edges
Divestiture recipient
DISH Network Corp.Communications company named as the recipient of divestitures in the official T-Mobile-Sprint settlement record.
Source-specific evidence
DOJ identifies DISH as the recipient of the divestiture package intended to support entry.
Merging party
Sprint CorporationWireless carrier named in the official T-Mobile-Sprint merger settlement record.
Source-specific evidence
DOJ identifies Sprint as a party to the proposed merger and settlement.
Merging party
T-Mobile US Inc.Wireless carrier named in the official T-Mobile-Sprint merger settlement record.
Source-specific evidence
DOJ identifies T-Mobile as a party to the proposed merger and settlement.
A relationship means an official source names the organization in connection with the dated record. It does not by itself establish liability, market power, ownership, control, or that the organization participates in every market linked to that record.
Descriptive economic context
Each row searches one linked market profile for strict pre-event, same-year, and strict post-event observations. Missing anchors remain part of the result.
Before/after HHI differences are descriptive comparisons between discrete public releases. They do not estimate the causal effect of the policy event.
Bounded market context
United States / Telecommunications
Paired windowMobile wireless service competition using FCC-reported weighted average HHI by economic area. Firm-level shares are not shown because the FCC report publishes the concentration metric rather than a full public carrier share table.
A linked market identifies the observatory context assigned to this record. It is not necessarily the relevant antitrust market alleged or adjudicated in the official matter.
Source custody
U.S. Department of Justice / agency report
DOJ settlement record requiring divestitures intended to support a fourth nationwide facilities-based wireless competitor.
Accessed Jul 17, 2026. U.S. Department of Justice, Justice Department Settles with T-Mobile and Sprint in Their Proposed Merger, July 26 2019.
License note: Public federal government record
Nearby observatory chronology
Explicit proceeding membership / record 1 of 1
Open the declared chronology before using market-linked nearby records as broader context.
Dec 31, 2024
MonitoringFederal Communications Commission
FCC releases 2024 Communications Marketplace ReportShared context: Wireless service
This chronology is generated from shared observatory market links. It does not assert that the records concern the same matter, conduct, parties, or theory of harm.
Reproducible record packet
Filtered routes preserve the exact event ID across the official record, named-organization edges, descriptive market windows, and linked market profiles.
A record dossier preserves what one dated official source says and the observatory context linked to it. It does not convert allegations into findings, findings into economy-wide conclusions, or nearby market indicators into causal effects.
A linked market identifies the observatory context assigned to this record. It is not necessarily the relevant antitrust market alleged or adjudicated in the official matter.