英语新闻听写 又搞垄断?美国两大移动运营商宣布合并（在线收听）

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。