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Sprint, T-Mobile Agree to $26 Billion, All-Stock Merger


Yeah, on my phone though, so didn’t have a chance to search around. Was also letting the OP know that everyone might not be able to read it.

As for when I go to read it, I’m asked to Subscribe or Sign In to read the full article. You don’t get that?

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Sprint is CDMA, Tmobile is GSM.

How'll they merge them?

Voice over LTE is the real future. Also they can work with device manufacturers to tailor band coverage to address the issue until VoLTE is wide spread.

This is going to be absolutely brutal on Sprint's IT, Network, and Marketing orgs within 18 months of the deal closing.

Its interesting that the combined company is planning to spend $40 billion on its network in the 3 years after the deal closing. The sad reality is that if Sprint had actually invested in its network for the last several years it wouldn't be in the position of having to make this deal or else.
 
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/sprint-t-mobile-boards-vote-to-approve-all-stock-merger-1525017644

bet the corrupt Trump administration will rubber stamp this.
less competition = good for business

Not necessarily. Remember, right now AT&T is facing a DoJ lawsuit over its proposed Time Warner takeover. This administration isn't completely in the pocket of corporations, and a deal like this has mixed implications. Yeah, Republicans love reducing competition, but T-Mobile and Sprint are also much smaller than AT&T or Verizon. This would create a third carrier around the size of AT&T or Verizon and might actually help competition by forcing Big Blue and Big Red to offer more competitive plans.

My main worry is that T-Mobile (who's taking charge here) might become the very thing everybody hates if it gets that big. It's just that this isn't nearly as bad as AT&T's failed buyout of T-Mobile -- that was all about snuffing out competition and creating a monopoly.
 
Yeah, on my phone though, so didn’t have a chance to search around. Was also letting the OP know that everyone might not be able to read it.

As for when I go to read it, I’m asked to Subscribe or Sign In to read the full article. You don’t get that?

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I get it. It happens to me sometime after the beginning of every month, so many links lead to the NYT. I would consider a subscription but it also happens at many other sites as well. I can see having a subscription if you want to read a particular paper, but I want to follow links and am often blocked. It's a fascinating issue because the media needs to earn to teach and I am asked more and more to pay to learn. Where that is going is a bankrupt media to protect against a bankrupt me and an information bankrupt world. We will all be learning only what those who pay to publish will want us to hear.
 
A lot of new phones support both GSM and CDMA. Google's Project Fi runs on Sprint and T-Mobile networks for example already.
In a world with real government, the radio spectrum would be run in such a way as to insure all citizens had access regardless of ability to pay by income tax. Your connectivity would be provided here by an expanded US Postal Service, say.
 
Yeah, on my phone though, so didn’t have a chance to search around. Was also letting the OP know that everyone might not be able to read it.

As for when I go to read it, I’m asked to Subscribe or Sign In to read the full article. You don’t get that?

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Use chrome and browse incognito mode.
 
Nope my browser goes right to the article.

This is what I get when viewing the OP link via my phone and PC:

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I guess the WSJ doesn’t like me. I just read one of the other links that someone posted.

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Sprint coverage isn't the best but I had to toss Verizon because they were almost twice as expensive. Hopefully this doesn't make things worse.
 
T-Mobile CEO John Legere, who will head the merged company, said on a conference call Sunday that the firm plans to deliver "the highest capacity network in US history."

He said the company will hire thousands of people in a bid to create a nationwide network that will position the United States as the leader in providing 5G connectivity.


From one of the posted links. Telephone company mergers never create new jobs. They consolidate and eliminate jobs to gain economies of scale. He's only saying this to get Trump to approve it.
 
From one of the posted links. Telephone company mergers never create new jobs. They consolidate and eliminate jobs to gain economies of scale. He's only saying this to get Trump to approve it.

Horizontal mergers only generate layoffs...oh i'm sorry "efficiencies".
 
Horizontal mergers only generate layoffs...oh i'm sorry "efficiencies".
I've noticed that both horizontal and vertical mergers consolidate resources....for efficiency's sake.😱 Good for the board/shareholders and not so much for the workers.
 
Sprint is owned by Softbank, a Japanese company. My guess is that Trump uses it as some sort of leverage against Abe for better trade terms.
 
Soooo....Rudy said in an interview that Trump denied the merger. Only problem with that is that the DOJ repped in sworn testimony that there was no political interference.

“Whatever lobbying was done didn’t reach the president,” Giuliani said, offering as proof the fact that AT&T’s proposed merger with Time-Warner has not gone through. “He did drain the swamp ... The president denied the merger. They didn’t get the result they wanted.”


https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5af606e6e4b0e57cd9f979c7
 
t-mobile kills the sprint network.

so basically, tmobile just bought sprint's customers?
if more to it, then explain?
 
t-mobile kills the sprint network.

so basically, tmobile just bought sprint's customers?
if more to it, then explain?
The sprint network hasn’t been killed but incorporated into T-Mobile’s. Also Sprint had huge spectrum holdings thet were actually the most valuable asset in the company by far.
 
t-mobile kills the sprint network.

so basically, tmobile just bought sprint's customers?
if more to it, then explain?

Pretty sure that Sprint’s 3G network (along with AT&T’s and Verizon’s) has been scheduled for decommissioning. Gotta reuse the spectrum for sub-6 5G.
 
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