Any thoughts on Sprint and Tmobile merging?

[KLin]

http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/29/news/companies/t-mobile-sprint-merger/index.html

Down to 3 carriers now. Good or bad?

 

[Thebobo]

And one carrier to rule us all...

 

[allisolm]

Down to 3 carriers now.

Don't count those chickens just yet.

"A deal announcement doesn't mean a merger will actually happen. Combining the third- and fourth-largest wireless U.S. providers in a market with only four participants — Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint — could be a hard sell for U.S. regulators. AT&T attempted to buy T-Mobile in 2011, only to have regulators block it on anti-competitive grounds."

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/27/t-mobile-sprint-merger-near-value-at-26-billion.html

 

[KLin]

Well they did wait until Trump was president.

 

[PliotronX]

Will sprints CDMA equipment be replaced by GSM? Could definitely improve coverage for Tmobile, that's all I care about. Back when the Galaxy S3 was new, I tried it with sprint and it was turrrrble so I took advantage of the 14 day return policy. Now BYOD with Tmobile and am happy as I spend 99% of the time in cities where coverage and speed is good with VoLTE but outside of towns leaves something to be desired.

 

[NoTine42]

Did anything good actually happen from the Sprint Nextel buyout? (Also 2 different technologies)

 

[BoomerD]

I've never had either...used nextel almost 20 years ago when the union provided a phone for me...hated it.

We've been with Verizon since shortly after we moved to W. WA. Expensive, but great coverage and service. (except when I'm at home...where we sit in a "bowl" surrounded on 3 sides by tall hills and even taller fir trees...)

 

[lxskllr]

I've never had either...used nextel almost 20 years ago when the union provided a phone for me...hated it.

I hated nextel with a passion. That stupid chirp, then a bunch of garbled nonsense following, My blood pressure immediately went up as soon as I heard the chirp.

Sprint seems pretty good around here. It may be that I don't know better. Work went from nextel to sprint, and all the prepaid services I used were on the sprint network. No real complaints.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Telco merges are always a bad thing. They create a disorganized monster. I know, because I work for one. They won't stop buying out other telcos and even non telcos. Everything is a mess. This affects customer service too. And of course, it means less competition. But that's the capitalist way.

 

[Anubis]

hopefully this will improve their equally shirty rural coverage

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Keep in mind that TMo owns MetroPCS, which is CDMA.

 

[RLGL]

THE CUSTOMER GETS SCREWED AGAIN!!!!

 

[Exterous]

Well its better than if Verizon bought either of them so there's that. Maybe TMobiles coverage will get better but I think it will be awhile before there is any real improvement

 

[Pacfanweb]

So you will have one suck ass carrier where there were once two?