AT&T must be forgetting that the DOJ issued legal proceedings to block the merger. So it isn't just the FCC that they have to worry about. Threatening the FCC with a lawsuit will guaranty the merger doesn't happen, and you know the DOJ will join their government agency brother in laying the smack down on any hope of an AT&T/T-Mobile Merger. No one is buying this Ma-Bell BS. It's not going to happen, so they can withdraw, but a stupid litigation thread by a company however big, to a government agency insures that government agency (FCC) plus the DOJ win this handicapped match against AT&T.

Down the road, AT&T is going to need FCC blessings. This nonsense pretty much insures they don't get it, even with a Republican Administration.

Thats exactly whats going on, they think they're to pull off the same thing Microsoft did in their antitrust case. Microsoft went from a breakup order to a toothless settlement thanks to a change in administration.

This saddens me, not only that AT&T thinks that a republican administration will save their ass, but the fact that its true. I vote republican, but this one part of the parties beliefs i dont stand behind. this and their religious freakishness...

"Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes!"

Corporations are getting so big, Idiocracy's prediction is becoming reality (Brawndo buying the FDA and the FCC.)

*Why* is AT&T threatening to sue the FCC? Surely the author could have dug a little deeper and told us why.

My guess is that AT&T wants to try again under a Republican administration, so they don't want a ruling against them on the books.

Lord knows Republican pandering to corporations knows no bounds.

Getcha popcorn ready, it's gonna get NASTY!

The devil is in the details.

SO ALWAYS READ YOUR *EXPLETIVE* CONTRACT BEFORE YOU SIGN!