AT&T in last-minute bid to save T-Mobile deal: report

Tue, 11/29/2011 - 16:32 EDT - France24.com - Business

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Telecom giant AT&T is making a last-minute bid to save its $39-billion (29-billion-euro) purchase of T-Mobile from being slapped down by US regulators, the New York Times reported Tuesday.AT&T is in talks with Leap Wireless to give the smaller firm some of the accounts and wireless spectrum of T-Mobile, a subsidiary of Germany's Deutsche Telekom, the Times reported, citing people involved in the negotiations.

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