I'm sympathetic to a lot of the points here, but a key part of the story got left out: T-Mobile's performance used to suck vs. Verizon and AT&T. When T-Mo's n

I'm sympathetic to a lot of the points here, but a key part of the story got left out: T-Mobile's performance used to suck vs. Verizon and AT&T. When T-Mo's network was crummy, the company to differentiated itself by being cheaper and less gimmicky than its competitors. I'm not too surprised T-Mo is adjusting its strategy as the company's network narrows the gap w/ VZW + AT&T. T-Mobile's performance was probably trending in a good direction even w/o the merger, but acquiring Sprint (and Sprint's spectrum) likely helped improve performance a good bit.