Looking back at 2011: AT&T's bid to acquire T-Mobile is defeated

. AT&T made headlines in March of this year when it announced plans to acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion. Here we are nine months later and the deal is dead in the water, but there was a huge game of tug-of-war going on all year between AT&T, policy makers, the government and AT&T's competitors. There were points when it seemed that the merger was bound for approval, and others where it seemed fairly certain that the government would reject AT&T's application. The only thing we knew for sure is that this deal, if approved, would change the wireless landscape in the U.S. forever.

Boy Genius Report, Looking back at 2011: AT&T's bid to acquire T-Mobile is defeated