Sprint and T-Mobile Revisit Merger Talks

[brooklynite]

Source: MacRumors

At the time, Sprint parent company SoftBank was not satisfied with the deal because of ownership terms, with SoftBank concerned about losing control of the combined company after T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom requested a controlling stake.

The current discussions are said to be in a preliminary stage, and it's not clear what terms the two companies are considering, nor if the current administration would allow the deal to go through. Talks between the two companies have fallen apart several times before, and the same could be true of this round of discussions.

Should T-Mobile and Sprint be able to establish a satisfactory deal, the combined company would have close to 100 million customers, putting it ahead of AT&T and just behind Verizon.

When the last deal fell through in November of 2017, Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure said it was best for Sprint to move forward on its own and that the company would be "accelerating significant investments" to ensure its continued growth.

Read more: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/sprint-and-t-mobile-revisit-merger-talks.2114481/

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I don't understand why a GSM and a CDMA platform would find it useful to merge.

[MattP]

1. Sorint owns tons of bandwidth other than that?

[Sherman A1]

2. I am not in favor of this proposal

Just as I was against T-Mobile and American Telephone and Telegraph potentially merging. I don’t see it as good for consumers.

[MicaelS]

3. Many phones are being built with both ..

GSM and CDMA circuitry built in. It makes great sense, because then a phone could be programmed to switch back and forth between the closest network no matter what it is.