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T-Mobile Hints at Cable Partnership
Speaking about the company's earnings this week, T-Mobile CEO John Legere hinted at the idea of a partnership with a cable operator sometime in the company's future. According to Legere, there's a potential synergy between wireless operators like T-Mobile and cable in their quest to do battle with AT&T and Verizon, which the CEO affectionately calls "dumb and dumber." Legere sees a future where operators heavily lean on cable's growing volume of Wi-Fi hotspots, but the CEO didn't offer any substantive plan details beyond speculation. "I've always said it's not a matter of if, but when," Legere said of a cable partnership. "Now I'm going to add who."
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biochemistry
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Dish

Seems like Dish would be a better partnership with all their unused spectrum.

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As much As I hate to agree with that partnership Its the most logical choice leverage wise for Tmobile Dish get to offer there customers bundles with say a 10% discount on T-mobile plans Tmobile can offer tv service that already blankets the USA. Also TMO would receive free and clear access to ALL of dishes squatting spectrum especially in rural areas. Tmobile and Dish 50/50 split tower builds in rural america to rival ATT & VZW network. TMO with access to all of dishes spectrum would be the equivalent to " A kid in a candy store".

Note this is all dependent on if TMO does not acquire a good share of 600mhz in next years auction. If they do then They really wound not need to partner with Dish or cold hold out for a better deal if they still wanted to pursue that route.
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Dish's spectrum isn't useful for rural deployments.

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Dish has a reasonable stash of 700 mhz unbundled E block the question is how much of it's rural. If I'm correct more than 50% of what there squatting on is rural. Also there sitting on A lot of AWS which is not the best for rural deployment however if Dish is going dutch on the build it might work for rural towns. The rest of there spectrum, agreed not so much. Yet Dish also is the holder of the lions share of MVDDS spectrum Thats Ideal for rural Internet deployment as the range is 2-4X LTE's range, the downside is MVDDS needs LOS. Dish could have already build out a terrestrial HSI service with that spectrum ( think canceled, OMG fast). the problem is, they just wont.
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T-Mo eats TWC??

He alluded to a potential tie-up between T-Mobile and a cable company.

Combining T-Mobile with a cable company could offer benefits to consumers

»www.cnet.com/news/t-mobi ··· F65cbda0

Would be interesting lol

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Re: T-Mo eats TWC??

T-MobCast???

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That is What I was really hoping for. Please do a 4 play deal so I can lower my Cable and phone bill.
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Re: T-Mo eats TWC??

lol

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kicking commiecast while they're down?

so what are they planning? being the fourth leg of the stool for a quad-play offering by a subpar MSO? meh.

they need to really have a powerplay for this to work. discount on combined service from MSO, and wireless from T-Mo with the ability to place-shift content from your DVR, and maybe a built-in pico cell for T-Mo LTE in the CPE cable modems? even that might not be enough to shake up the industry, because all those features can be rolled up with existing solutions, albeit from multiple vendors and providers already.

not even a company like apple could integrate all this stuff well enough to move the market - that's why the apple tv is still a niche product.
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Internet-only television?

T-Mobile IPTV that doesn't count against your bandwidth cap could be glorious
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Re: Internet-only television?

I thought that was included in "T-Mobile Tv"??

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T-Mobile IPTV that doesn't count against your bandwidth cap could be glorious

You do realize that would be impossible

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There goes T-mobile if ......

There goes T-mobile IF they decide to partner with Comcast. T-mobile actually has above average tech and customer support. Even better (*whispers*) they actually provide answers, not script reading. Oh - and decent rates IMO.

Maybe they could buy out BT and bring that across the pond to the USA.

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Pros + Cons

Obvious synergies would involve backhaul to T-Mobile sites which are currently mostly provided by CableCo's nationwide, as well as means of delivering mobile video content.

Obvious consumer challenges will most likely involve the end of Uncarrier movement...
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It won't be Comcast, for sure

Comcast isn't about to embark on another merger that is going to fail. And T-Mobile+Comcast is another sort of vertical integration that the USDOJ isn't about to approve.

If Dish and T-mob get together, I would worry. I've been a T-mobile customer for dozen years, but Dish's horrible customer service reputation and maniac of a CEO would, I believe, utterly destroy any of the good credibility that T-mobile has created over the years. Legere is, in my opinion, a good CEO. Everything I have read about Ergen makes him out to be a real shit.

If T-Mobile is going to be merged to anyone, let it be Google.