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This bums me out a lot. I moved to T-Mobile specifically to get away from Sprint.

• SllX 7y ago
  The way I see it, T-Mobile is Daddy and Sprint is Mommy in this merger. Theoretically, this merger should only be additive to existing T-Mobile customers. Not to say there aren't ways this could go badly as well, but I'm fine with the plan I have now, and I don't see any downsides to my service provider increasing the spectrum available to them. There are some concerns around reduced competition, but I'm thinking that might not actually be a concern in the same few years it will take to gauge how this merger actually shaped the market, e.g. StarLink. Even if something like StarLink doesn't pan out, and Dish as a cellular provider turns out to be dead in the water, having three carriers on almost entirely even ground competing is probably better than having two strong carriers, one flashy but still generally uncompetitive carrier and one dead fish carrier. Probably better to not even bother trying to prop up Dish to be #4, but this is what the regulators have decided to push for in their attempts to throw the right levers and twist the right knobs to maintain "competition".