WASHINGTON – ATT Inc. is pledging to bring 5,000 wireless call center jobs, currently based abroad, back to the U.S. if it is allowed to proceed with its proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA.
The company is also promising that the merger would not result in any job losses for ATT and T-Mobile USA wireless call center employees who are on the payroll in the U.S. when the deal closes.
ATT’s commitment to repatriate jobs comes as antitrust regulators at the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department ramp up their reviews of a combination that is certain to reshape the wireless industry’s landscape.
ATT, the nation’s second-largest wireless carrier, is seeking government approval to buy T-Mobile USA, the fourth-largest, from Germany’s Deutsche Telekom AG. The cash-and-stock transaction would catapult ATT past Verizon Wireless to become the nation’s largest wireless provider, and leave Sprint Nextel Corp. as a distant number three.
Although ATT
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