SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK: Sprint and T-Mobile US said on Saturday they have called off merger talks to create a stronger US wireless company to rival market leaders, leaving No 4 provider Sprint to engineer a turnaround on its own.
The announcement marks the latest failed attempt to combine the third- and fourth-largest US wireless carriers, as Sprint parent SoftBank Group and T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom AG, show unwillingness to part with too much of their prized US telecom assets.
A combined company would have had…