As a former Nextel employee I would recommend that TMobile stay far far away!
Earlier this month, reports suggested Sprint and T-Mobile had once again resumed merger talks, and now it appears the two U.S. carriers may be close to inking a deal.
According to Reuters, Sprint and T-Mobile have "made progress" negotiating merger terms and are aiming to complete deal talks as soon as next week.
T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom and Sprint parent company SoftBank are said to be discussing an agreement that would "dictate how they exercise voting control over the combined company."Previous merger talks between Sprint and T-Mobile failed after the two companies were unable to reach "mutually agreeable terms." Sprint parent company SoftBank was said to be unsatisfied with the deal because of ownership terms, with SoftBank concerned about losing control of the combined company after Deutsche Telekom requested a controlling stake.
If T-Mobile and Sprint are able to establish a satisfactory deal, the combined company would have more than 100 million customers.
Sources that spoke to Reuters said there is "no certainty" a deal will be reached, given the dissolution of the previous merger talks.
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Sprint and T-Mobile Aiming to Reach Merger Deal Next Week
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Normally I'd agree, but if Sprint + TMobile = a network with actually decent coverage, it may yield an even more viable alternative to ATT & Verizons stranglehold on the nation.
maybe.
in a best case scenario.
Not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but that’s how monopolies are created.
The day I let Sprint into my life is the day I go back to Straight Talk on ATT. T-Mobile, you don’t need their garbage service! Stay uncarrier and let them fail then gobble up the patents and bandwidth in the bankruptcy auction.
Verizon is CDMA and you can switch SIM cards and it works. Sprint just has sucky technology.
I’m for this if T-Mobile is in control. If Sprint is in control than I will ditch at the first sign of any issues whatsoever.
It won't be that simple though. The FTC and FCC would require the joint company to divest some spectrum to avoid a monopoly of the airwaves.
Because it's the fact they fight for customers fleeing vzw or att, they will no longer have any incentive to keep prices low since they will no longer have to compete for those customers.
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Surely that's sarcasm?
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Do you actually know how economics works? Part of the reason companies do this is so they can ditch paying for two infrastructures and share an existing one instead of paying for two. What would happen is actually exactly what you just described. Don't believe me? Look up a little company called Nextel.
Yay! T-Mobile gets an extra 200sqr miles of coverage!
VZW customer here with plenty of device investment in their network, a business sub of theirs for 15+ years. What you wrote here smacks of all kinds of stupid, not even addressing the reasons why Sprint and TMo would/should/could merge. "Verizon is CDMA" is just so 2012 it's funny in a sad way as in what are you writing about here - I travel nationwide and see 1X in one county - Wahkiakum - that doesn't have LTE-based coverage, and that's only part of that county (I have clients there). VZW is sunsetting their CDMA network, they went on the record about this matter two years ago. I still use VZW iPhone 6 handsets - not the newer units - and pretty much never see CDMA-only coverage anywhere, ever. So, good one, thanks for the laughs...
BTW, VZW SIM cards are LTE-only.
A CDMA and GSM network combining, how is that supposed to work?
Also bad for consumers.
Also bad for consumers.
Two providers with already bad coverage in my area (home and work), won't immediately make their combined service any better. At least they can use their combined resources to better utilize existing spectrum, buy additional spectrum, or faster rollout of 5G.
Who cares? The FTC is going to reject any proposal anyways, at least until there’s a fifth national carrier...
If Comcast’s cellular service got that big, it could happen. But I’m pretty sure nobody is dumb enough to use them.
If Comcast’s cellular service got that big, it could happen. But I’m pretty sure nobody is dumb enough to use them.
I got in on the one year free deal for unlimited everything with sprint and while I like my small bill ($15 per month for 5 lines with unlimited everything), the coverage is horrible in many places. Can’t wait for the one year deal to end so I can go back to cricket.
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Don’t make up stuff. I don’t like sprint coverage in the us either but I took my iPhone to Beijing recently and I got better service in Beijing than I got anywhere in the us. Still using the cdma sim in Beijing.
How on Earth did you get such a great deal? Phones paid for outright, I assume.
Please be prepared. As soon as T-Mobile gains advantages for their network coverage, the bill will go up to recover their investment costs. It will be a wise business decision for any companies.
I'll believe this when I see it. The prospect of improved coverage will be nice, count me as one who hopes they hold the lid down on costs too (Sprint customer here who pays $73 or so/mo for a grandfathered unlimited plan).
But still would be the worst service in my area. T-MOBILE could gain foot print for advertising purposes but would not help them deliver quality service. Mixed technologies CDMA & GSM too
Agreed on the service - not sure where you're at (am in Omaha), but Sprint's been pretty solid for me - T-Mobile would likely drag it down as they try to integrate technologies.
