Judge approves T-Mobile's $26 billion merger with Sprint

UPI ^ | Feb. 11, 2020 / 9:52 AM | Don Jacobson

[dfwgator]

Anti-Trust Laws, what are those?

[goldstategop]

One Phone Company to rule them all.

[Spktyr]

To be fair, Sprint is likely to go out of business in short order without this. This is less of a merger and more of just an acquisition. TMobile has actually been pretty stiff competition against AT&T and Verizon.

[xrmusn]

Wasn’t all that long ago WE ‘allowed’ them them to spend billions to split up AT&T.

That was back when a billion dollars meant something.

[Born to Conserve]

Cell phones companies are going to get hurt by VIOP over Musk’s Starlink. I would not invest a penny in cellular or cable — they’re doomed. There will be a convergence of Starlink and G5 that wipes out everything else.

[shelterguy]

“”””””””””To be fair, Sprint is likely to go out of business in short order without this.”””””””””””””

They suck. Their customer service is almost as bad as Comcast.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The merger still must be approved by the California Public Utilities Commission before it can become official.

Yeah, what are the odds of THAT?

[Red Badger]

DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH MONEY THE DEMS CAN EXTORT FROM THEM.................

[Red Badger]

[shotgun]

Then AT&T got their hooks into DirecTV and turned that into shit.

Although DirecTV’s customer service was alright, AT&T brought their customer service model to the table and it went down from a 5 to a zero. It was so bad that it was hard to pay their bill, which I think was their plan, so they could collect late fees. Where before I could just text in the monthly payment, AT&T linked it all through their un-user friendly website and their mobile app wasn’t any better. More usernames and passwords.

[Spktyr]

Yes, but they’re running out of money and they do actually have some critical network contracts.

[Spktyr]

Starlink has a lightspeed delay to orbit and back. Hope you like lag.

[KC Burke]

Anyone holding Sprint stock should note a 71% gain since opening this morning.

[FLCowboy,]

One Phone Company to rule them all. FCC

[Zhang Fei]

[Anyone holding Sprint stock should note a 71% gain since opening this morning.]

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Long-suffering S shareholders like me are merely recovering a tiny portion of their losses since they plunked down good money for this Hindenburg of a stock.

[sean327]

So two companies with crappy coverage just became one big company with even crappier coverage???

[KC Burke]

I took advantage of a similar chance yesterday to dump Edgewell (EPC) as it was never going anywhere and I was back to even with its 23% bump.

[VTenigma]

Sprint used to be rated worst in customer service. I bought a sprint account and after a long story they couldn’t/wouldn’t enable the phone I bought from THEM. Then, no refund. I had T-mobile and they were great, then they shut down cell access in my area. I hate cell phones.

[Spktyr]

That’s not really saying much...