Others don't agree. released another statement against the plan in response to the filing with the FCC. "It is an indisputable fact that this takeover would create an entrenched duopoly with control of approximately 80 percent of wireless industry revenues," said Vonya McCann, senior vice president of government affairs at Sprint. "This kind of leverage could strangle competition and give AT&T the power to increase prices, threaten innovation critical to this industry and eliminate American jobs."

Sprint believes that the FCC should reject the deal outright. "This proposed takeover cannot be fixed with conditions or divestitures," McCann said.

If the deal does go through, AT&T would dominate the mobile market, dwarfing Sprint. Sprint has been speaking out against the deal since it was first announced.

The IDG News Service