# In a joint court filing, Professors Nicholas Economides, Thomas Philippon, Robert Seamans and Lawrence White argue against the U.S. Department of Justice's Sprint/T-Mobile merger proposal

1 School News October 10, 2019 ![The Verge logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/theverge.jpg?itok=TV-zqWUM)>

Excerpt from [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/10/20908539/t-mobile-sprint-merger-dish-network-failure-stopped-antitrust-experts-doj) -- "In a new filing, a group of seven economists and antitrust experts say the court should reject the DOJ’s proposed solution, calling it 'doom\[ed\] ... to failure' and 'a remedy that does not meet the standard of restoring the competition currently provided by Sprint.'”

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