A merger is usually followed by job lay-off to decrease or eliminate position duplication such as customer service personnel, accounting, etc ,as many many merged company companies. So creating job is almost fake news unless newly created positions which do not exist prior to the merger are created for unlimited period of time, which are rare. All promises by both CEOs should not be believed until they materialize. More customers are definite because Sprint customers become T-Mobile customers. Improved coverage is sure but not much to be able to be equal with Verizon. Sprint coverage is worse than T-Mobile. “unprecedented network capacities” is fake news. There are some precedents network capacities before. Do your research. Lower prices for customers? That is unlikely unless there are some cuts or innovation made to compensate T-Mobile profit margin. No companies want to have low profit margin especially their shareholders. In summary, for all T-Mobile and Sprint customers and employees, do not get too excited about the merger with all good times be true promises. Analyze all facts from business perspective and merger history of other organizations with similar type business situation: the one who takes over trying to maximize their position with the ones who got taken over who merged, which is usually weak on their business position. What are impacts to competition word and customers?
The problem with this summation is it takes from former acquisitions and brand remodelling by USA carriers in the past: ATT, Cingular, then the new AT&T (circa iPhone debut; OG).
Here we have a carrier funded by a much more profitable German carrier of the same name, getting 69% voting rights after the merger, more spectrum combined to take on the other big 2 nationwide.
He NMVOs will suffer disband, customers will migrate to T-Mobile or go elsewhere - churn never goes away ina. Very healthy competitive mobile marketplace, so get over it. Virgin mobile as an MNVO will stick around the have the finances to back them up.
Sprint failed miserably for 5 yrs horrible financial and investment decisions. T-Mobile with John L has been making huge strides in marketing and in good uptake with more subscribers and has stressfully increased while reducing churn year after year for the past 5-7yrs. Their customers for contracts or no contracts are getting better value especially with upgrades to hardware by comparison to Verizon and AT&T especially when it comes to international roaming fees. Corporations are going to love this.
The win here is although initial increases in rates when 5G launches ... it’ll be business like Amazon, Walmart, FedEx, and UPS types that require fleet tracking in real time, others in the automotive industry (and their customers) will also absorb the increased rates initially. Car real time mapping and AI assisted driving - federal legislation and rules for this will happen at a breakneck speed by all this year. Mobile phones should not see a huge cost increase.
Regular smartphone usage will not really benefit from 5G not without a huge battery life hit (6-7” screens will boom again), moreover laptops with eSIM or nano sim slots will be utilized by corporations heavily especially those that work remotely 80% of the year as cost savings for office space will be taken in heavily. They already pay for their phone and monthly bills why not an add on for laptop data for a more reliable transportable and roaming ability for more secure wireless connection?!
T-Mobile, Verizon and ATT will offer direct corporate VPN tunnels as a service over 5G working with Cisco, etc to enable this. Robotic operations though minimal field transport also could benefit.
Until fully unlimited data occurs for most mobile plans for smartphones over 5G I think most users will enjoy better bandwidth increases using LTE as medical state and emergency services (police, ambulance, and fire departments) get dedicated 5G connection upgrades freeing up LTE bandwidth.
That’s how I’m seeing this. The two top dogs haven’t had real competition yet now they will.
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As a current T-Mobile subscriber, and I can't believe I'm saying this, this merger might be a good thing.
1. John Legere has demonstrated during his tenure at T-Mobile that he's good at reshaping the wireless industry, and doing so by bringing customers value add. Eliminating contract plans, eliminating hidden phone subsidy's, and offering reasonable unlimited plans were major shifts in the wireless industry that T-Mobile introduced. Seriously, we were all paying to add TEXT MESSAGING.
2. Combining largely LTE user bases won't nearly be as challenging as it was when it was truly GSM and CDMA. The vast majority, if not just about all Sprint phones sold in the last what 5 ish years can work on the existing T-Mobile LTE network. Obviously, none of us have the exact numbers, but again, this isn't the technical hurdle that it once was.
3. The combined T-Mobile will still a slight underdog to Verizon and AT&T, plenty of encouragement for them to continue pushing the value proposition in the wireless industry.
4. Sprint was a dead company walking - It was hemorrhaging subscribers and had no real long term growth plan. You know it's bad when their commercials say "we're worse, but it's not as bad as you think".
5. This is far more long term, but T-Mobile's ambitions may go beyond just mobile wireless, again, more motivation to tackle things beyond just challenging ATT/Verizon.
Oh, and current Sprint customers can finally stop using their WAP browsers. I KID I KID
Well said.
I think sprint customers could stop using the Chirp Chirp network saying “who is that?!”
hoping you get this commercial reference.
