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T-Mobile and Sprint Officially Call Off Merger
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The only coverage as bad is T-Mobiles in some areas. Like Los Angeles. I don't even know how they can get one customer there.
No kidding. I had an absolutely miserable experience with Sprint, but my experience with Tmobile over the last year has been nearly perfect. Huge amounts of data, almost no slow-downs.
Billion dollar merger negotiations:
T: Combined entity will me called “T-Mobile.”
S: I don’t think so!
T: How about “S-Mobile?”
S: “Sprint”
T: Compromise. “T-Sprint”?
S: T nothing!
T: Deal is off!
T: Combined entity will me called “T-Mobile.”
S: I don’t think so!
T: How about “S-Mobile?”
S: “Sprint”
T: Compromise. “T-Sprint”?
S: T nothing!
T: Deal is off!
i have friends on Sprint that say they don't offer much for Sprint Customers either
Are you implying that Sprint has a good network? Other than some ownership of the spectrum I have no idea why anyone would be interested in Sprint - meanwhile T-Mobile is a loved carrier by most of its users -- I am certainly wildly happier with it, than I was with both AT&T & Verizon.
The spectrum and towers are the only things of real worth at sprint besides the Customers. If executed properly, the merger would have been great for both companies. Over time most of the Sprint network would have been shut down and refarmed to T-Mob.
With Verizon moving away from CDMA, Sprint will be more or less alone in the world using CDMA. A decision by Samsung or Apple to stop supporting CDMA once Verizon stops using CDMA will be a death blow to Sprint. Lets just hope T-Mob has the financial resources at this time to pick up the pieces, or else the USA will be down to just 2 Big providers.
The only problem this time around is Sprint has reached a point where they quite literally are unable to give their service away for free (ok, for monthly taxes, but still). Ultimately this means that Sprint will go bankrupt, probably by the end of 2018 and we will see us down to three carriers by mid 2019 unless something changes dramatically.
