• T-Mobile and Sprint agree to merger, will discontinue Sprint branding
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http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/29/news/companies/t-mobile-sprint-merger/index.html The $26 billion merger, announced Sunday, values Sprint near its current share price of $6.50. The merged company will go by the name T-Mobile, and executives are promising to hire thousands of people in its bid to create a nationwide 5G network. Sprint and T-Mobile first discussed a merger in 2014 but scrapped it because of concerns about regulatory challenges from the Obama administration. This, uh, seems like a big deal for American telecommunication. I've been on T-Mobile for ages and love their service, but we'll see how this merger affects things going forward....
Ghost of Theodore Roosevelt please kick these people's asses
Honestly this is potentially a good thing for people. AT&T and Verizon are both still on top despite T-Mobiles somewhat more consumer friendly strategy. With this merger they might just be able to kick Verizon in the teeth hard enough to bring about some change.
So when do they merge with verizon, and then ATaT, before being merged with Amazon and Alphabet, and eventually all supermarkets, and finally tacobell?
I agree in terms of infrastructure that this is a good thing, but the biggest problem with merging companies is that all the management from the failing company (Sprint) gets placed in the middle of the successful company, which can definitely degrade their quality of business.
Jesus Christ YES Sprint is fucking horrible, we have like 8GB to go between 3 people
Oh shit I may be able to have working internet service again then. we have to us MVNO’s who supply unlimited data hotspots. The one we were on was one that used sprint’s towers as we have really good LTE signal from Sprint. they recently lost the ability to supply sprint devices as the company they got them from was in active litigation with Sprint, so we switched to their T-Mobile plan. We only get 1-2 bars of LTE signal from T-Mobile. This will be a great thing then, since I assume T-Mobile will be taking over Sprint infrastructure.
The cheapest option I had for data was 2GB, and I STILL pay $60+ a month for it. Combine that with the fact that I live in Bumshart, Nowhere where it seems that as soon as I leave to head to any other podunk town my service drops off. :/
Was gonna say that this might finally result in better T-Mobile coverage where I live, but then I remember that Sprint also has shit coverage. Kinda sucks that ATT and Verizon are the only 2 providers that have half decent coverage where I live, but at least my phone has no contract and at least there are MVNOs. Protip. Never trust coverage maps really. T-Mobile's says I should be getting full on 4G LTE out where I live, but I'm lucky to get 2 bars of coverage with them, and even more lucky if my mobile data even works.
Yeah, fuck competition right?
*Ghost of daddy Marx more like
I wonder if this means they'll support both GSM and CDMA phones.
Hopefully that go with GSM only.
I just swapped from MetroPCS/T-Mobile to Sprint not long ago...
if there's one thing telecommunication needed it was more monopolization
the areas sprint led in were locked out for tmo because of frequency auctions vice versa with tmo leading these two really never competed with each other in those areas because of it and had shitty coverage that the only way to solve would have been for one to to acquire the other
Maybe sprint customers will actually get coverage outside of major cities now In all seriousness though I'm curious as to how this is going to affect the numerous MVNO's operating through sprint and T-Mobile now, especially if Boost will offer T-Mobile SIM cards.
Naa trust me as a man on the inside of Sprint they have been downsizing corporate like crazy. They fired shit tons of people at the beginning of this year. None of us officially knew this was happening but it was pretty obvious when the pink slips started being handed out
I wonder what this means for Ting users.
Ting users don't it means shit now. I switching to Verzion via Straight talk shit T-Mobile isn't covered in my area now that I moved. Plus $55 for 10gb vs Ting's $10 per 1gb.
It has to be GSM because the LTE standard adopted GSM technology, as it has been around a lot longer, and matured. Also not to mention, GSM equipment is a lot cheaper to produce.
What I was getting at is the fact that these networks divided customers in certain areas.
I use Ting, a reseller on Sprint's network. It's the same service quality as Sprint but a better business model where I pay about half of what I paid when I was on Sprint. I wonder how this might affect Ting and other small resellers.
Can I get uhhhhhh boneless antitrust suit?
On one hand, some competition from someone who's at least pretending to care about the customers couldn't hurt, on the other, we already have too many telecom giants ruling the airwaves as it is. Ma Bell is more powerful now than she was when she was broke up 30 years ago and Verizon's even bigger than Ma Bell somehow... Probably when we get three seashells to replace TP. IIRC we're still a couple years from the riots...
I had been using Sprint with my family for ages. It is unbelievable how bad the reception was at my parent's house. Even voice calls could be dropped in certain parts of it. Finally switched to my own TMobile plan last year and it was such a magnificent jump and worth it. I am actually really excited cause this probably means my family will welcome the idea of joining my Military plan for the benefits and help pitch in at the same time.
I'm thinking the move might in part be motivated by infrastructure troubles Sprint is going to face in coming years. LTE is going to be the new standard for everything in a few years iirc. I remember reading that Verizon is wanting to eliminate CDMA on their Network by 2019 or something along those lines. Would be weird to be the only Network using CDMA still
Doesn't really make a difference now a days since phone manufactures include both CDMA and GSM modems inside their hardware.
here's my hot take: i'm not gonna necessarily jump to the conclusion that this merger is a bad idea and somehow encourages monopolization despite there still being two other major competitors. i feel reasonably confident in John Legere's ability to do good things, and i think i might feel differently if it had come out that he would no longer be CEO of the company. i'm going to remain cautious, but be just a little hopeful about the net benefits for consumers that this merger might provide.
I think this is likely to be pretty good The thing is sprint is essentially a dying company iirc, and this basically allows a company that actually has some resources and potential to work with sprint's infrastructure. (though, I wonder how this will effect me as a google fi customer)
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