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Internal T-Mobile documents show the company considering a Comcast merger
- rubyn00bie 7y agoThis would literally be _the worst_ thing for consumers and telecommunication innovation since Ma Bell lorded over our copper lines. I can't fucking believe that audacity of T-Mobile (I can) to lie so blatantly to the FTC about remaining competitive after the Sprint merger, when this shit is the plan. So I guess the FTC's official standpoint is "fuck all telecommunications" competition I guess? Le sigh. I'm going back to my cave...
- anonuser123456 7y agoAs a part of the merger, Dish Network purchased additional spectrum from Sprint. Dish will be entering as a 4th wireless provider soon. So that will be 4 major carriers + the multitude of MVNO operators. What do you mean exactly by no competition?
- cheriot 7y agoThe argument in favor of the merger is that T-Mobile can't leverage its existing network into a competitive 5g network, but Dish can create a competitive 5g network from scratch. How are these both true at the same time? All the MVNO operators I know of are on Sprint and T-Mobile so that's not real competition. Dish may or may not follow through. So it's definitely a loss of competition for 7 years in the hopes that Dish gets us back to where we started with 4 operators... What are the odds this goes well for customers?
- gen3 7y agoI hope not. T-Mobile has a lot of good going for it in my opinion. The culture feels the opposite of what Comcast is (or any of the cable companies they could merge with).