Remember the Sprint and T-Mobile merger? Of course you do. It has been in the news for more than a year, and we’ve reported on the situation many times over the last several weeks at Droid Turf. Well, the latest word is not so good if you were hoping this would be announced in November as expected.

As we mentioned in our prior report, a carrier merger entailing Spring and T-Mobile would require many approvals before going into place. One of the first stops being Softbank, Sprint’s parent company, who shut down the merger possibility last year explaining the need for revision. This seems to be the case again this year.

According to Nikkei Asian Review and The Wall Street Journal, Sprint and T-Mobile are expected to call off the deal that was reportedly so close to being finalized. The two are no longer negotiating, because Softbank isn’t exactly willing to give control of Sprint to Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile’s parent), which would be necessary for a deal to be made.

The possibility hasn’t been completely grounded just yet, but it’s looking that way with the two company’s sounding like they want to part ways. In other words, don’t expect any market shakes in the US wireless industry anytime soon.

Despite hearing about positive progress, we’ve always had our doubts about the chances of this merger actually happening, and so it appears that movement has stopped, a long way short.

Were you hoping for a deal to be made? Does this news disappoint you? Join us in the comments.

SOURCE [Wall Street Journal] [Nikkei Asian Review]

VIA [Droid-Life]