T-Mobile tried and failed to merge with Dish years ago, John Legere says

T-Mobile wanted to merge with Dish back in 2015, T-Mobile CEO John Legere told a federal court yesterday, but Dish shot the deal down over concerns that T-Mobile would “disintegrate.” The details, reported by CNET, confirm stories from 2015 about a potential tie-up between the two companies and explains why the deal never came to be. A merger would have given T-Mobile access to a trove of valuable spectrum that Dish has long held on to, but not yet put to use, along with a satellite TV business.

Legere was in court testifying as part of a lawsuit brought by multiple state attorneys general who are attempting to block T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint. Lawyers for the attorneys general asked Legere why T-Mobile had to merge with Sprint, a...

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