The only reason Sprint has any customers is because of their ultra cheap SERO plans, where they basically allowed all their customers to use employee pricing plans.
As they moved forward though, they did not bring most of the smartphones on them, until they created a new add-on for it.
Even though sprint has been way cheaper, they are bleeding customers, and it is only a matter of time before they go away. Sprint may be out of business before the AT&T and T-Mobile deal is finalized.
People talk about needing competition, but AT&T and Verizon did not really consider T-Mobile and Sprint competition. They compete with each other. They give little credence or thought to what T-Mobile or Sprint were doing.
If both disappear, it won't make any major differences in things. AT&T and Verizon set their pricing and plans based on each other, not on anyone else, and that is not going to change any time soon.
The reality is because of the technical issues and the cost issues for deploying a nationwide cellular data network in the US, you can't have that many viable competitors, it is just not possible.
The more competitors means the smaller the piece of pie is for each competitor meaning the less revenue they have to go towards building out and supporting their network. Given the amount of land you have to cover, splitting customers up becomes a huge negative for the entire industry at a very limited number of players.
It is just not a business that can support several players. If worst comes to worst they may have to look at regulating it, but in seriousness, I don't think more than two major players will be able to make it work given the dynamics.
As they moved forward though, they did not bring most of the smartphones on them, until they created a new add-on for it.
Even though sprint has been way cheaper, they are bleeding customers, and it is only a matter of time before they go away. Sprint may be out of business before the AT&T and T-Mobile deal is finalized.
People talk about needing competition, but AT&T and Verizon did not really consider T-Mobile and Sprint competition. They compete with each other. They give little credence or thought to what T-Mobile or Sprint were doing.
If both disappear, it won't make any major differences in things. AT&T and Verizon set their pricing and plans based on each other, not on anyone else, and that is not going to change any time soon.
The reality is because of the technical issues and the cost issues for deploying a nationwide cellular data network in the US, you can't have that many viable competitors, it is just not possible.
The more competitors means the smaller the piece of pie is for each competitor meaning the less revenue they have to go towards building out and supporting their network. Given the amount of land you have to cover, splitting customers up becomes a huge negative for the entire industry at a very limited number of players.
It is just not a business that can support several players. If worst comes to worst they may have to look at regulating it, but in seriousness, I don't think more than two major players will be able to make it work given the dynamics.