AT&T’s (
T) bid to acquire No.4 wireless carrier
T-Mobile USA
failed spectacularly in late 2011 after
the Justice Department sued to block the merger. There is clearly no love lost between
AT&T and its former acquisition target, as the carrier on Thursday took out a full-page ad in several large newspapers slamming T-Mobile’s network. “The truth about T-Mobile’s network compared to AT&T,” the ad reads. “2x more dropped calls, 2x more failed calls, 50% slower download speeds.” The ad, pictured below, ran in
The New York Times,
The Wall Street Journal and in
USA Today on Thursday.
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