Sprint Considering T-Mobile Takeover in 2014 Friday Dec 13 2013 16:27 EDT According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Sprint is pondering a bid to acquire T-Mobile sometime in early 2014. Anonymous sources tell the Journal that Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son is driving the possible acquisition, which may face steep opposition from regulators because it would reduce the number of major competitors from four to three at a time when T-Mobile is being particularly disruptive on price. It has been just two years since Sprint was a major player in getting regulators to block AT&T's attempted takeover of T-Mobile, arguing four competitors were necessary to retain some semblance of wireless competition. A combined T-Mobile and Sprint (53 million postpaid subscribers) would still be substantially smaller than AT&T (72 million) or Verizon (95 million). |
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Sprint takeover of T-MobileNow that is a great idea. Let me take a group of irresponsible, incompetent, and inept fools and allow them into an expensive crystal shop. Sprint cannot create an outstanding experience for the subscribers it has, how is it supposed to take care of T-Mobile's subscribers with consistent excellence. | |
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Don't see it happening...Sprint totally screwed up with the Nextel acquisition. iden + cdma does not mix, as they learned over the course of what, ten years? Does sprint expect cdma + tdma/gsm to do any better? | | | axus join:2001-06-18 Washington, DC
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axus
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2013-Dec-13 5:22 pm
Maybe it would be goodGreat plan, T-mobile could use another 4 billion dollars | |
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