(1). T-Mobile and Sprint announced a plan to merge the mobile carriers.
T-Mobile和斯普林特宣布了一个合并这两个移动运营商的计划。
(2). The combined entity will maintain the T-Mobile brand with a combined subscriber base of 70 million.
合并后的实体将保持T-Mobile品牌,并且拥有7000万的用户基础。
(3). If the merger is approved by regulators, the number of major mobile carriers in the US will shrink from 4 to 3.
如果该合并获得了监管者批准,美国主要的移动运营商数将从4个缩小至3个。
(4). But that would also place T-Mobile in third, behind Verizon with 111 million subscribers, and AT&T with 78 million subscribers.
但该合并也将T-Mobile排在第三的位置上,位于拥有1.11亿用户数的威瑞森和拥有7800万用户的AT&T之后。
(5). This latest merger bid is the third in four years, but they last attempted a merger 5 months ago.
这个最新的合并请求是四年之内的第三次,而他们上一次的尝试是在5个月前。