FCC to Take More Time to Review Merger Between Sprint and T-Mobile

[4jasontv]

We have a choice of which network we give our money to for their products and services. There is no monopoly in the cell phone provider market.

You have no choice over provider. I want TMobile on the 700 MHz band. How do I get that? Oh wait... no. Verizon has a monopoly on that. Stop trying to say that cell phone providers sell the same product.[/QUOTE]
A monopoly in the network market would be control over the complete spectrum. Which isn’t the case.
Some fast food restaurants only offer Coke. Others offer only Pepsi. Thats not a monopoly.[/QUOTE]

No. That analogy doesn’t work. That would only be true if the entire spectrum was the same. It’s not. Different frequencies have different properties. Also, I can get coke and Pepsi at more than one place. I can’t use the 700 band with whatever carrier I want because VZW won’t let other carriers use it.

 

[MrXiro]

Ajit pai has nothing to do with the merger itself, but I certainly believe he will endorse it!

Actually I think it's the opposite. He's a Verizon lackey, if anything he'd be against it.

 

[darksithpro]

Two terrible companies to merge. Who would've guessed. Sprint has been historically CDMA, while I think T-Mobile is GSM. Perhaps it could be a good thing. Merged they could compete against Verizon and At&t's ridiculous monthly fees. If the US GOV approved all the Arline mergers then I say let them approve this one!

 

[seinman]

Two terrible companies to merge. Who would've guessed. Sprint has been historically CDMA, while I think T-Mobile is GSM.

That was true for legacy networks, but both are now LTE (which uses CDMA technology, by the way) for their primary networks. Legacy networks will eventually shut down, and most phone support both of the companies' legacy standards anyway, so this isn't a big deal at all.

 

[Sefstah]

You have no choice over provider. I want TMobile on the 700 MHz band. How do I get that? Oh wait... no. Verizon has a monopoly on that. Stop trying to say that cell phone providers sell the same product.

A monopoly in the network market would be control over the complete spectrum. Which isn’t the case.
Some fast food restaurants only offer Coke. Others offer only Pepsi. Thats not a monopoly.[/QUOTE]

No. That analogy doesn’t work. That would only be true if the entire spectrum was the same. It’s not. Different frequencies have different properties. Also, I can get coke and Pepsi at more than one place. I can’t use the 700 band with whatever carrier I want because VZW won’t let other carriers use it.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like your problem is with the FCC licensing that frequency to Verizon. That however is not a monopoly. If it were, there would only be one network provider. There are more than one. Its pretty simple.

 

[4jasontv]

A monopoly in the network market would be control over the complete spectrum. Which isn’t the case.
Some fast food restaurants only offer Coke. Others offer only Pepsi. Thats not a monopoly.

No. That analogy doesn’t work. That would only be true if the entire spectrum was the same. It’s not. Different frequencies have different properties. Also, I can get coke and Pepsi at more than one place. I can’t use the 700 band with whatever carrier I want because VZW won’t let other carriers use it.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like your problem is with the FCC licensing that frequency to Verizon. That however is not a monopoly. If it were, there would only be one network provider. There are more than one. Its pretty simple.[/QUOTE]

It is, as we have seen, the very definition of monopoly.

 

[Sefstah]

Mono=One
T-mobile, Sprint, ATT, Verizon=More than one.
Please let me know if you need anymore help understanding.