Dish Gets US Help Easing Deadline to Buy T-Mobile Airwaves
- Dish faced August deadline to complete US-mandated deal
- T-Mobile opposed delay and said it wants to auction airwaves
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US antitrust regulators urged a judge to give financially-strapped Dish Network Corp. more time to purchase airwaves from T-Mobile US Inc., which wants instead to auction the frequencies.
Dish should have until April 1 to buy the airwaves, after missing an August deadline for the $3.5 billion purchase, the Justice Department said in a filing late Monday at US District Court in Washington.