T-Mobile Withdraws Motion to Stay Chicago Class Action

Defendant T-Mobile in the antitrust class action to overturn the carrier’s Sprint buy on antitrust grounds served notice Monday (docket 1:22-cv-03189) on the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago that it had withdrawn its Aug. 26 motion to stay the case, pending the plaintiffs’ service of the complaint on all foreign defendants. The withdrawal suggested the plaintiffs had finally served court papers on Deutsche Telekom through diplomatic channels, as was described during a status hearing in October (see 2210210032). Seven AT&T and Verizon customers brought the class action, saying the T-Mobile/Sprint transaction caused their rates to skyrocket through reduced competition in the wireless space. T-Mobile denies the allegations. U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin set the next telephonic status hearing in the case for Jan. 27.