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US clearance of T-Mobile deal shows viability of efficiencies claims under Trump

By Ilana Kowarski and Flavia Fortes ( July 23, 2025, 22:23 GMT | Comment) -- In clearing T-Mobile’s acquisition of US Cellular this month, the US Department of Justice performed a balancing of anticompetitive harms and merger benefits, ultimately finding that the likelihood of efficiencies outweighed the competition risks. The rare finding by US competition law enforcers shows the Trump-Vance administration is open to accepting merger antitrust defenses that its predecessors would have been reluctant to embrace — but only if the administration deems evidentiary support for those claims to be sufficient.In clearing T-Mobile’s acquisition of US Cellular this month, the US Department of Justice performed a balancing of anticompetitive harms and merger benefits, ultimately finding that the likelihood of efficiencies outweighed the competition risks....

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