{"id":5163,"date":"2013-03-07T10:51:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T15:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prepaidreviews.com\/blog\/?p=5163"},"modified":"2022-02-05T11:39:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T17:39:54","slug":"t-mobile-metropcs-update-passees-doj-in-shareholders-hands36557","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepaidreviews.com\/blog\/metro\/t-mobile-metropcs-update-passees-doj-in-shareholders-hands36557\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile &#8211; MetroPCS update: Passees DoJ, in shareholders&#039; hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[If not for the Department of Justice interceding in the AT&#038;T - T-Mobile proposed merger, I wouldn't be writing this today. But just over a year ago the DoJ and FCC shot down their deal, leaving AT&#038;T to seek expansion elsewhere and T-Mobile searching for solutions. After many months, they announced their next idea: a merger with <a href=\"https:\/\/prepaidreviews.com\/providers\/metropcs\/\">MetroPCS<\/a>. Yesterday we learned that the DoJ won&#8217;t step in on this one. Their opportunity to pry further into the merger has passed, implicitly signaling that they have no problems should the two parties come to a final agreement. But in this case, the future hurdles appear significant.\n<!--more-->\nSome MetroPCS shareholders have been raising a stink about this deal from the start. Back in October we learned that a group of shareholders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmonews.com\/2012\/10\/metropcs-shareholders-file-suit-to-block-deutsche-telekom-merger\/\">filed suit<\/a>, claiming that MetroPCS was &#8220;drastically undervalued&#8221; under the merger terms. Not long ago John Paulson, whose hedge fund owns a 9.9 percent stake in MetroPCS, made it known that he will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phonescoop.com\/articles\/article.php?a=12023\">vote against the deal<\/a>. 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