Like pretty much all large tech companies and household names in competitive consumer-facing industries, T-Mobile, owner Deutsche Telekom, and former Sprint parent SoftBank have undoubtedly faced their fair share of lawsuits over the years.
Rehashing an old argument used by fourteen state attorneys general and the District of Columbia AG to try to stop the merger from happening (which obviously failed), said “group” is seeking “declaratory relief” and financial compensation for a “precipitous” decline in competition since the big four US carrier club switched to an even bigger three arrangement.
As if that didn’t sound ridiculous enough, the class action lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court aims to represent “all persons or entities who paid for a Verizon or AT&T mobile wireless plan on or after April 1, 2020”, which is a lot of people.
