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The next hurdle is a federal trial in December in which a coalition of state attorneys general are challenging the merger as anti-competitive.

In the plan, service providers will provide technology to combat a practice known as spoofing to aid state attorneys general in locating and prosecuting the fraudulent robocallers.

Ohio is expected to receive almost $583,000 from Sprint and Verizon to settle allegations that the carriers allowed phony charges on their customers'…