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T-mobile un-carrier 4 is selling out to Softbank/Sprint

Rukbat said:
AT&T tried too. Cornering the market is illegal in the US.
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I know, but this deserves some attention, their winning and dining the DOJ and FCC with positive results. There is space to merge without cornering, there would be 3 operators instead of 4 major ones which is still acceptable...
 
I know if they actually attempt the merger, I and several others will sign petitions/send letters to the government opposing the sale. If Sprint takes over T-Mobile, I suspect I will move over to AT&T; I also know I won't be alone.
 
Not too concerned about this......yet.

From my perspective, TMo has disrupted the traditional carrier model here in the U.S. and the FCC likes that. The FCC has been trying to break the hold the big three carriers have on consumers in the U.S. Allowing Sprint to acquire TMo at this point would seem to contradict that goal.
 
These stories have been circulating for the past several weeks.

There's no reason sprint couldn't buy them and keep them as a separate company. The migration from GSM to LTE would be very tricky
 
LuvMusic said:
Not too concerned about this......yet.

From my perspective, TMo has disrupted the traditional carrier model here in the U.S. and the FCC likes that. The FCC has been trying to break the hold the big three carriers have on consumers in the U.S. Allowing Sprint to acquire TMo at this point would seem to contradict that goal.
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I see what you have to say but I also know the following facts:
  • Softbank is a company with lots of money (cash on hand) and ambitions, and they strongly want to position themselves in the American market
  • Dutch Telekom has wanted to get rid of T-Mobile USA for some time now, just haven't found the right deal
  • Money and other interests always have the last voice in the conversation...

I'm going to keep following this as it develops, but at the same time, even if they acquire T-Mo I would probably stay with them anyways, Verizon and AT&T aren't choices for me.
 
Rxpert83 said:
These stories have been circulating for the past several weeks.

There's no reason sprint couldn't buy them and keep them as a separate company. The migration from GSM to LTE would be very tricky
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Technology mergers aren't the focus all the time in wireless carriers, spectrum and positioning are more important in this case.

GSM would prevail as the technology of choice, CDMA is a dead in the water technology to invest in.
 
megabiteg said:
I see what you have to say but I also know the following facts:
  • Softbank is a company with lots of money (cash on hand) and ambitions, and they strongly want to position themselves in the American market
  • Dutch Telekom has wanted to get rid of T-Mobile USA for some time now, just haven't found the right deal
  • Money and other interests always have the last voice in the conversation...

I'm going to keep following this as it develops, but at the same time, even if they acquire T-Mo I would probably stay with them anyways, Verizon and AT&T aren't choices for me.
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I agree the topic is worth following. However, if the three points you made were driving the decisions of the FCC and DOJ, TMo would now be an AT&T company, so, there is more in play here.
 
It will be interesting to watch how this plays out, but I'm not going to get overly concerned about it just yet. T-Mobile has attracted a lot of customers with their recent antics #Uncarrier initiative, and at the same time they've also informed the public that you don't have to stay with a carrier if you don't like them. I imagine a lot of those newly-educated new customers wouldn't stick around too long if the acquisition started to eliminate what has made T-Mobile so attractive recently.
 
I love this paragraph from that article:
But T-Mobile's recent success has shown regulators that being smaller isn't necessarily such a significant disadvantage. While Sprint has languished from its slow network roll out and the slow shutdown of its Nextel network, T-Mobile has shown a remarkable turnaround over the past year. Regulators aren't keen to remove such a competitive threat to the industry.
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Keep it up, T!
 
codesplice said:
I love this paragraph from that article:


Keep it up, T!
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I was a Sprint customer for years, and I jumped ship last summer because I honestly felt I wasn't getting value for what I was paying for in terms of Data and reliability (I travel a lot, and after being dead in the water in several countries I decided to move on to something more global).

Now with that said, I think its a mater of time that Sprint will bounce back and maybe better than before, maybe competing for 3rd or 2nd place. SoftBank is a very strong company with good vision and the best thing that could of happened to them was to get purchased by them, but I don't think this is time they would keep a positive momentum by purchasing T-Mo. They are both going through similar times company wise, but with big differences: T-Mo has a strong background, politics and policies were holding them back, not technology. In the case of Sprint, policy, politics and technology was holing them back, this might change soon for them.

In the end, great for us as consumers because hopefully we will benefit from great competition and lower prices and more services that make sense to buy not what ever they want to offer...
 
My only concern and hope is that:

1. The CEO should be the current CEO of T-Mobile John Legere because he has help lower cost for us all. AT&T is scared of him!
2. I hope GSM stays and not CDMA.
 
The FCC and DoJ will not allow it. It is not going to happen.

Masayoshi Son and Dan Hesse have essentially been told this already.
 
Bodycount said:
Hey I used Nextel's at work for years. They worked well all the time. The perfect walkie talkie.
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Yea, I used them as well... The problem was that the technology died way before it ever was born. There was potential there but nothing that couldn't be made available with current technology (like we've seen so far), I just think it needed more time to mature in Motorola development labs and not in the general publics hands, it wasn't ready for prime time.
 
epp said:
The FCC and DoJ will not allow it. It is not going to happen.

Masayoshi Son and Dan Hesse have essentially been told this already.
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Comcast plans to acquire Time Warner Cable in $45.2 billion deal: sources

This is about to happen! Comcast is already monopoly! Can this be stop?

You don't think the Sprint and Tmo is going to merge?

I am mad!
 
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