AT & T said Thursday it included in its accounts an exceptional charge of four billion dollars (3.0 billion) to cover the cost of a possible failure of his proposed takeover of T-Mobile, an operation whose outcome seems increasingly compromised.
The U.S. operator and Deutsche Telekom, parent company of T-Mobile, ensured continued efforts to obtain the green light by U.S. antitrust authorities to repurchase $ 39 billion, which could threaten thousands of jobs but they withdrew the case filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the regulator of the sector in the United States.
"This formal approach is taken today by the two companies to consolidate their forces and focus their efforts to obtain antitrust approval from the Department of Justice", said the companies.
"AT & T and Deutsche Telekom keep the goal in the sale of AT & T, Deutsche Telekom's mobile operations in the United States," said the statement, published on Thanksgiving Day, a holiday in the United States.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FCC opposing the operation, which could only be reduced to three the number of national mobile operators.
A green light from the FCC would be useless without the DOJ.