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US: T-Mobile hires executive to help with Sprint merger

By  |  September 25, 2018

Sunit Patel is leaving his position as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial  Officer at CenturyLink to become the new Executive Vice President, Merger and Integration Lead at T-Mobile.

In his new role at T-Mobile, Patel will lead T-Mobile’s strategic planning efforts to integrate its business with Sprint as the two companies work through the necessary regulatory reviews and other closing conditions to combine and become the “New T-Mobile”.

In April T-Mobile and Sprint announced they had entered into a definitive agreement to merge in an all-stock transaction. The parties expect the transaction to close in the first half of 2019. Patel will report to T-Mobile President and Chief Operating Officer Mike Sievert.

Full Content: The Kansas City Star

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