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To: Captain Peter Blood
Sprint is dead man walking. They have to do a deal. They have some decent spectrum holdings, but no cash to build it out.

CDMA is being phased out, and all carriers are moving to a common LTE modulation scheme. Good for subscribers, because now Verizon, Sprint, and US Cellular can roam to AT&T and T-Mobile and vice-versa instead of only within their CDMA/GSM worlds. More roaming partners mean lower costs.

On the flip side a Sprint/T-Mo merger gets rid of one major player, and one that competed on the low cost side (and low network quality). So T-Mo wouldn't have to compete as hard on being the low cost leader.

Interesting stuff. I bet the merger goes through this time.

4 posted on 04/29/2018 5:33:25 PM PDT by Pappy Smear
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To: Pappy Smear

Interesting. Sprint should have phased out CDMA a long time ago.


5 posted on 04/29/2018 5:35:32 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Pappy Smear

Oh the better to hack you


23 posted on 04/29/2018 7:01:30 PM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: Pappy Smear

*** “Interesting stuff. I bet the merger goes through this time” ***

Their Stock is Plummeting as I type this.


38 posted on 04/30/2018 9:59:21 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
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