Deutsche Telekom (DT) will be hoping that third time’s a charm for its plans to acquire Sprint, as its US arm, T-Mobile USA, agrees to a deal which would value Sprint at about $56bn. Together, the two companies, based on their 2017 results, would generate annual revenues of $73.9bn, have about 30% of mobile customers, and about 50% of spectrum (though divestments would be likely to be imposed). The companies have been engaged in merger talks twice before, but these previously collapsed amid disagreements about valuations, and fears that the transaction would be blocked by antitrust regulators, because it will reduce the number of national MNOs from four to three. This time around, they have managed to agree a deal…