Despite a legal blockade by the DOJ and criticism over rather-obnoxious lobbying efforts, AT&T continues to try and salvage their planned $39 billion acquisition. As it stands, it remains likely that the deal will get done, but AT&T will likely have to divest a significant amount of their markets to smaller carriers to create at least the vague illusion of wireless competition. According to a new report by Bloomberg, MetroPCS is the most likely recipient of these gifts from the regulatory gods. Leakers (possibly from AT&T) insist a deal currently being discussed would involve offloading around $4 billion in spectrum and subscribers to MetroPCS. MetroPCS executives are on the record stating that unlike Sprint they like the deal, because it immediately makes them the nation's fourth largest carrier (even if there's a pretty huge drop off after number two).