T-Mobile’s $26.5B Sprint merger appears imminent after judge's ruling

A judge has ruled in favor of T-Mobile in a lawsuit trying to block the company’s $26.5 billion acquisition of Sprint. The lawsuit was seen as the final obstacle to the merger, which announced two years ago. The merger is expected to be complete by April 1, according to the New York Times. It will transform T-Mobile, the U.S.’s third-largest cellphone carrier into the country’s third telecommunications juggernaut, taking on the nation's two largest carriers, AT&T and Verizon. In the lawsuit,…