- Dish faced August deadline to complete US-mandated deal
- Justice Department earlier backed more time for Dish
A deal is critical both for Dish’s efforts to expand into the telecom space and for the federal government’s efforts to maintain a competitive wireless market in the aftermath of T-Mobile’s purchase of provider Sprint Corp. in 2020.
Photographer: Jeenah Moon/BloombergT-Mobile US Inc. is fed up with waiting for Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network Corp. to buy $3.5 billion of airwaves and is urging the US government to not grant an extension.
In a filing Friday in the US District Court in Washington, the wireless giant said that Dish needed to complete its purchase, which had an August deadline. If a deal cannot be reached, the company said it wants to instead put the airwaves up for auction.
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