There seems to be tough time ahead of AT&T, as a federal judge has accepted the request to freeze the deal of acquiring T-Mobile USA Inc. This comes as nothing less than a shocker for the company as they were expecting to get some breather this time.

In the wake of AT&T’s earlier claims that the carrier’s proposed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA would result in the creation of between 55,000 and 96,000 jobs, the officials at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have asked AT&T to submit further details to substantiate the jobs claims.

In a Thursday letter to AT&T, Rick Kaplan - the wireless bureau head at FCC – sought the carrier’s response to the commission’s May request for more information about its jobs claims in connection with its merger with T-Mobile.

Orange customers in the UK will be able to use T-Mobile's 3G network and vice versa, starting next week, Everything Everywhere confirmed.

With a sincere intention to allow their customers to reap the benefits of 3G signals form both T-Mobile and Orange, parent company Everything Everywhere is going to launch its "big 3G switch-on" service.

Scheduled to start next week, the big 3G switch-on will provide T-Mobile and Orange customers with wider 3G mobile broadband coverage.

The number of opponents of carrier AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA is on the increase.

Seven states, viz. Washington, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts and California, have declared their opposition to the AT&T/T-Mobile deal by joining the U. S. Department of Justice's suit to block the proposed merger.

Joining the US Department of Justice (DoJ) in taking the legal route against AT&T’s proposed $39-billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA, Sprint Nextel recently filed its own lawsuit to block the AT&T/T-Mobile merger.