https://consumerist.com/2017/09/22/sprint-mobile-reportedly-closer-to-being-an-actual-thing/

This just in: Sprint and T-Mobile were seen registering for china and a food processor at the wireless big-box store. That’s right, speculation continues to heat up in the will-they-won’t-they story that would combine the No. 3 and No. 4 in matrimony.

Reuters, citing not one, but two sources close to the matter, reports that T-Mobile is close to accepting Sprint’s rose in the form of a tentative merger agreement, perhaps even by the end of October.