M&A & Investments In particular greasy political horse-trading, T-Mobile announced that it would end some of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, in order to secure the sign-off of FCC Chair Brendan Carr, after Carr said he would block mergers involving companies that did not revoke DEI practices. This achieved FCC support for T-Mobile’s acquisition of Lumos, a fiber provider, through a joint venture with EQT. Cellnex is reportedly moving to divest its 72% stake in its Swiss towerco assets. According to Bloomberg, both DigitalBridge and Phoenix Tower International have been named as interested parties, with the price thought to be around €2 billion. These towers are the ones that Cellnex acquired from Sunrise in 2017 – around 2,339…