After the Department of Justice filed suit last week seeking to block the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile, Sprint waded into the lawsuit pool today.

Citing fears that the merger was "brazenly anticompetitive," and echoing the DOJ's fear that an innovative carrier was being removed from the market, Sprint also stated "The wireless industry is far too important to the U.S. economy to give gate-keeper control over it to the Twin Bells."

It's interesting that Sprint filed suit only after the DOJ did so first.  Sprint had been lobbying the FCC to take action as soon as the merger was announced, but was presumably waiting for a federal case to bolster its own claims.

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