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DOJ Wants DirecTV & Dish Merger To Wait: Sources
By  |  Oct 15, 2020

The merger of Dish Network with AT&T’s DirecTV has been squashed by the Department of Justice (DOJ), The Post has learned. Regulators with the DOJ’s antitrust division recently informed executives of AT&T that a marriage between DirecTV and Dish would likely have to wait until faster 5G wireless service is more widely available in rural […]

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