April 23-29: News of the Wedding

No, not that wedding. The merger we telecommunications wonks care about will join the houses of AT&T and Deutsche Telekom AG/T-Mobile.

On April 21, the bride and groom filed applications seeking the Federal Communications Commission’s consent to the transfer of control of the licenses and authorizations held by T-Mobile USA and its wholly-owned and controlled subsidiaries from Deutsche Telekom to AT&T. Since then there's been lots of analysis of the deal as well as some procedural maneuvers. The Benton Foundation has set up an online home to track the regulatory review of the deal. There you'll find a brief description of the deal as described by AT&T, links to events where the deal will be considered (see, for example, an upcoming Senate hearing), important dates in the review, and links to the many, many Headlines about the deal we've summarized since it was announced. This page will be constantly updated over the next year or so, so come back often.