FCC can and should not reject the buyout for 2 reasons, it would be unfair to AT&T if the buyout was rejected in both cases. Verizon was allowed to purchase alltel making them the largest provider jumping AT&T so when AT&T attempts to buy someone else to compete with verizon it wouldnt be fair to reject that bid and AT&T was already broken up once by the FCC making way to many bells nationwide and giving verizon the opportunity to become the largest provider nationwide. They already got knocked down and forced out of the number one spot so they cant keep kicking AT&T while they are down. This will make 2 huge companies but as was said it would be a mess if sprint buys them out with all thier different technologies and they still wouldnt be ahead of verizon in its customer base let it go through and have sprint be quiet and handle their own business.