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Posted: 12/20/11

By: tomgrisafi

On Monday, AT&T officially relinquished its one-time bid to acquire carrier T-Mobile.

The Wall Street Journal was first to confirm that AT&T is abandoning its plan as result of insurmountable opposition from federal regulators.

Consequently, AT&T will pay $3 billion in cash and turn over some of its wireless spectrum to T-Mobile owner Deutsche Telekom AG. Deutsche Telekom is also getting a “mutually beneficial” roaming agreement with its formerly interested potential buyer.

According to coverage from Reuters: "Deutsche Telekom said it will return to reporting T-Mobile USA as part of its continuing operations and that its group forecast for 2011 of an expected earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of around 19.1 billion euros ($24.86 billion) would remained unchanged."

The merger was effectively snubbed by the US Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice, as both bodies stated that the merger would result in a limitation of competition and substantial job layoffs.

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