Although large mergers are almost always problematic for consumers, I believe you are correct as to this one. Sprint's days are numbered under any scenario. Having its infrastructure go to the #3 player (by total customers) is the best outcome from a bad situation. Yes, rates will go up, but not as much as if AT&T or Verizon were to acquire Sprint's assets and use them to put the squeeze on T-Mobile.
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T-Mobile and Sprint Merger Expected to Receive Final Approval Tomorrow
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Although large mergers are almost always problematic for consumers, I believe you are correct as to this one. Sprint's days are numbered under any scenario. Having its infrastructure go to the #3 player (by total customers) is the best outcome from a bad situation. Yes, rates will go up, but not as much as if AT&T or Verizon were to acquire Sprint's assets and use them to put the squeeze on T-Mobile.
I’m not worried about the merger as much I’m worried about losing Legere. I’m hoping his culture sticks for a while, at least.
I thought they had to each divest these to Dish Network, as part of the concessions?
They get to keep metro, since that is always a part of t-mobile.
The deal with boost was to sell it to dish, as said here.
While I'm excited that I'll finally have coverage and can drop AT&T which I'm paying for as well as T-Mobile, I'm concerned I'll be kicked off my plan.
T-Mobile may decide to eliminate my current plan and also after 3 years, possibly double the price.
Will they still keep call centers in the USA or will they decide they are now another monolith who cares little for customer service due to less competition?
I'm feeling mixed about this.
T-Mobile may decide to eliminate my current plan and also after 3 years, possibly double the price.
Will they still keep call centers in the USA or will they decide they are now another monolith who cares little for customer service due to less competition?
I'm feeling mixed about this.
There was internal talk of a merger at TWC for a looong time before it was actually announced. I also had friends discussing what was happening and were unsure of where they would be in terms of a job in a year or two.
I was hoping this wouldn’t go through .
Less competition only means 2 things. Higher prices and generally, worse customer service, for consumers.
Phones aside, U.S. voice & data plans were the cheapest in the mid-2000s when we had Cingular, Sprint, Nextel, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon to choose from. I know it was a different era in terms of phone tech, but carriers were forced to consider 5 other competitors when pricing plans & offering promotions.
just my opinion.
Less competition only means 2 things. Higher prices and generally, worse customer service, for consumers.
Phones aside, U.S. voice & data plans were the cheapest in the mid-2000s when we had Cingular, Sprint, Nextel, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon to choose from. I know it was a different era in terms of phone tech, but carriers were forced to consider 5 other competitors when pricing plans & offering promotions.
just my opinion.
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Same things could happen if the merger wasn’t going thru. So the potential to be screwed is the same either way.
I didn't bother switching to Verizon before I got my XR mostly because they required me to buy the phone outright and take their BS protection plan on top of everything.
Now it looks like the countdown is back on. If the combined T-Mobile/Sprint network can't match Verizon's (doubt it will), I'd rather just switch now as opposed to sitting back and swallowing the inevitable price increase
*(have been a 13yr Sprint Customer)
Now it looks like the countdown is back on. If the combined T-Mobile/Sprint network can't match Verizon's (doubt it will), I'd rather just switch now as opposed to sitting back and swallowing the inevitable price increase
*(have been a 13yr Sprint Customer)
Now that the deal has gone through I'm curious if my T-Mobile iPhone is going to be able to use Sprint spectrum anytime soon? I sure hope so as one of the areas I work is remote and the only carrier that works there is Sprint.
There wasn’t. The merger was with Comcast. It could put on ice by the DOJ and then the spectrum deal happened. This is all very well documented.
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Problem in this specific case is sprint likely dies and gets bought up by ATT and VZW out of bankruptcy if the enter doesn’t go through.
Boost (Mobile) is going to get sold to Dish Network if merger gets approved. So no Boost for T-Mobile.
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I knew there was a good pun in there.
It looks like as of late this morning, it's a done deal with no additional noteworthy changes from the court. Judge Marrero apparently sided almost entirely with T-Mobile/Sprint, saying that the proposed merger "is not reasonably likely to substantially lessen competition." (It seems that his assessment that Sprint was likely to become essentially irrelevant anyway, absent this merger, was probably highly influential to his decision.)
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TWC merged with Charter to form Spectrum. There was internal dialogue about this for a long time, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Oh no way. With the way they price things and run their software, we'd be up the creek without any paddles.
This had to be a joke, right?
Absolutely. I'm surprised a few here don't know this fact.
Yeah, that’s my concern. T-Mobile’s parent company, Deutsche Telekom, has in the past considered selling it to focus more on Europe.Are you ready to become Comcast customers.....
Once this goes through, Comcast will come in and buy up T-Mobile.
Very Sad...