https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/19/sprint_tmobile_merger_talks/ >Sprint and T‑Mobile US are in talks to create a third major US wireless carrier. >A report published Tuesday by financial network CNBC cited the ever-chatty "sources familiar" in reporting that the two telcos are back in talks for an all-stock deal that would see the parent company of T‑Mobile US – Deutsche Telekom – take over majority control of the combined company, with Softbank, owner of Sprint, taking the lion's share of the payout.