Sprint Agrees to Pay About $32 Billion to Buy T-Mobile

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The deal was struck this week giving T-Mobile stockholders $40 a share for the company’s stock. All that is left to do now is to call in the army of lawyers to work out the final details and get the merger passed by the FCC and Department of Justice.

Softbank Chairman Masayoshi Son has made no secret of his long-held desire to buy T-Mobile and merge it with Sprint, creating a carrier with the resources to upgrade its network and better compete with AT&T and Verizon.
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not good for tmobile users. Sprint service is garbage and they are slow to do anything to fix there network.
 
Interesting. With the value minded philosophies of Sprint and T-Mobile maybe the combined resources will produce a company capable of better competing with ATT and VZW while continuing to be priced lower.
 
From what I hear from people in the industry, nobody thinks the government will approve this as it will have some far reach implications.
 
Wait a minute. A few months ago I dropped Virgin Mobile to get off of Sprints network and got MetroPCS to get onto T-Mobiles network, only to now end up back on Sprints network again?
 
This doesn't have an negative effects in my area. T-Mobile's coverage is relatively non-existent while Sprint has 4G towers all over the place..even in some of the boonies (between corn fields) where I travel for work.

If approved, I do feel bad for people that have satisfactory T-Mobile service but crapping Sprint coverage in their areas. Hopefully Sprint will integrate all the extra towers in a very timely fashion.
 
Here T-Mobile's 4g kicks ass pretty hard with low latency fast 4g and Sprint finally put in blazing fast 4g network but its latency is terrible.
Come Christmas I'm gone from Sprint, way too many bounced texts and call quality goes from good to poor and back again depending on the time of day.
I just can't afford another 2 years of Sprint's empty promises of "We're fixing it, and this time we mean it!"
 
so how long until there's one cell provider for the country?

almost there with one cable company
 
Since the failed merger between T-Mobile and AT&T, T-Mobile had turned around and did a lot of cool things to compete with Verizon and AT&T. While Sprint isn't as big as those companies, they haven't done much to compete against them either. Also Sprint is CDMA and T-Mobile is GSM and I like GSM.
 
Ultima99 said:
Interesting. With the value minded philosophies of Sprint and T-Mobile maybe the combined resources will produce a company capable of better competing with ATT and VZW while continuing to be priced lower.
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If this deal goes thru and is approved by the gov do you really think that Sprint is going to "eat" that 32 billion and give a free one to the customers. NO

I see the elimination of unlimited data, and tiered data plans like Vrz and AT&T has. No way in hell is Sprint just going to eat this deal/costs. We the customers will pay for it one way or the other.
 
Fine by me. The only thing I don't like about my republic wireless (sprint network) is that i don't get coverage at my cabin. This should take care of that.

I kind of like not being able to get calls, but not being able to look things up online is a pita.
 
I don't understand why Sprint with CDMA wants to buy T-Mobile with GSM. How would that even work?
 
Cruiza said:
I don't understand why Sprint with CDMA wants to buy T-Mobile with GSM. How would that even work?
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Maybe they will start selling international/global versions of phones that would work with any CDMA and GSM frequencies currently used in the US and call this "new and exciting" technology Spark 2.0

*shrug*
 
Cruiza said:
I don't understand why Sprint with CDMA wants to buy T-Mobile with GSM. How would that even work?
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Because LTE can also carry voice (which T-mobile already supports in some areas) Their frequencies complement each other.
 
We'll see how this goes. I think a large portion of the people who just switched carriers to T-Mobile came from Sprint. They definitely won't be happy as they obviously switched for a reason.

It's only been 10 years and I'm sure a lot of people are still sour from Sprint killing off the better network. (Nextel) I loved my PTT phone and it is still a faster way to do certain things than having to attempt to dial someone up or send a text.

I think it's kind of anticompetitive that an inferior company should be allowed to buy one that is going to overtake them in size. It would kind of be like if Apple bought Samsung because they were becoming a threat to them and were about to pass them in size. The only difference if it's considered a monopolistic approach is if there is another competitor in the market.

The biggest issue that I see if that it's possible that neither could survive long term. Sprint will likely just continue to botch everything up and probably fade away. T-Mobile's owner wants to sell them off like there is no tomorrow so even if they are doing well it will be hard to say what happens with them. I can't help but wonder how different this scenario could be if Softbank had bought T-Mobile first. Would people be a lot less skeptical if it were T-Mobile buying out Sprint?
 
Perhaps some of the opposition is because Sprint is buying T-Mobile and not the other way around ... I bet if T-Mobile were buying Sprint there would be much less opposition ... since 32 Billion is chump change to Microsoft or Google (Maybe even Amazon) it is too bad one of them couldn't buy T-Mobile (since the parent company clearly wants to sell) ... I doubt anyone would object to MS or Google going into the carrier business (except Verizon and AT&T maybe) ;)
 
[sarcasm]great[/sarcasm]....I switched to tmo to escape Sprint

that said...tmo is GSM and Sprint isn't...not sure if it will pass the regulatory hurdles
 
Government, you should have only ONE primary responsibility when it comes to the economy... bust monopolies and encourage fair and open competition.

Hopefully they block this, but I have a feeling the right hands will be greased.
 
i like how so many people in here are assuming Sprint is just going to shut off all of T-Mobile's network the second they get the chance and not use all those towers and bandwidth. It's like nobody here has ever looked at what happens in a merger.
 
Red Machine D said:
i like how so many people in here are assuming Sprint is just going to shut off all of T-Mobile's network the second they get the chance and not use all those towers and bandwidth. It's like nobody here has ever looked at what happens in a merger.
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I'm certainly concerned I'll lose my lifetime 200mb free data connection.
 
Cruiza said:
I don't understand why Sprint with CDMA wants to buy T-Mobile with GSM. How would that even work?
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Verizon is CDMA as well, but will go all LTE even for voice before long. LTE is the future for all carriers.
 
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." - Thomas Jefferson

This is just a few of the quotes TJ had on inequality and corporate power back when it was far weaker in the 1700s... He'd go ballistic if he saw how much power corporations have 300+ years later.

Let's hope our government remembers what our founding fathers stood for...
 
Well, it's not going to be much of a problem if it doesn't get approved by the feds.

T-mobile is hoping against odds that somehow this merger happens.

I hope it doesn't. Also, I hate being with t-mobile.
 
viscountalpha said:
Well, it's not going to be much of a problem if it doesn't get approved by the feds.

T-mobile is hoping against odds that somehow this merger happens.

I hope it doesn't. Also, I hate being with t-mobile.
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Does T-Mobile care one way or the other ... it is Deutsche Telecom that is making the sale, not T-Mobile themselves (since they are owned by DT) ... it was clear that TM did arrange the last attempt (with AT&T) and wanted it to fail (since they had severe penalty clauses in place if it didn't go through) ... do we have the same type of clauses here
 
Clearly we need the FCC to step in and stop this, because Sprint is evil. NOKIA NEUTRALITY!!!!1111
 
So then sprint would have, GSM, CDMA, LTE (x2), WiMAX, and until recently iDEN... how many garbage networks can one operator have? :confused:
 
FLECOM said:
So then sprint would have, GSM, CDMA, LTE (x2), WiMAX, and until recently iDEN... how many garbage networks can one operator have? :confused:
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It won't be too much longer until all but the LTE networks are shut down. The consolidation is coming.
 
FLECOM said:
So then sprint would have, GSM, CDMA, LTE (x2), WiMAX, and until recently iDEN... how many garbage networks can one operator have? :confused:
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GSM and CDMA will likely be sunset in the 2020s, similar to how Verizon is planning to sunset CDMA in 2021. Wimax is already slated to be shutdown the end of 2015.
 
4LC4PON3 said:
not good for tmobile users. Sprint service is garbage and they are slow to do anything to fix there network.
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QFT.
I'm not living in BFE, yet sprint has no 4g service within 200 miles, still. There 3g is so jam packed, its like a webserver being DOS'd. I even made a comment on another site about how dialup is faster than sprint in my area and the users got all panty wadded saying I was exaggerating. Not. Fuck sprint. I hope this deal gets killed just like the ATT one.

Ultima99 said:
Interesting. With the value minded philosophies of Sprint and T-Mobile maybe the combined resources will produce a company capable of better competing with ATT and VZW while continuing to be priced lower.
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Doubt it. Major carriers remaining after Merger Sprint-Nextel-Mobile, ATT, Verizon. When there is this few players, there's no reason to drop prices or provide better service. Collusion is illegal, but doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

pigwalk said:
Wait a minute. A few months ago I dropped Virgin Mobile to get off of Sprints network and got MetroPCS to get onto T-Mobiles network, only to now end up back on Sprints network again?
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Same boat here dude. I feel for you if it happens. Sprint will only drag Tmobile down the shitter.

kbrickley said:
Perhaps some of the opposition is because Sprint is buying T-Mobile and not the other way around ... I bet if T-Mobile were buying Sprint there would be much less opposition ... since 32 Billion is chump change to Microsoft or Google (Maybe even Amazon) it is too bad one of them couldn't buy T-Mobile (since the parent company clearly wants to sell) ... I doubt anyone would object to MS or Google going into the carrier business (except Verizon and AT&T maybe) ;)
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+1 I would not oppose Tmobile buying sprint and firing all the sprint board of directors.

remember folks, opinions are regional, ie, my opinion of sprint is based on my local experience, I don't care how fast your 4g is where you live, HERE, they SUCK. That is my experience. I've complained to them , sent them letters and emails, gave them 13 years of service , the last 3 sucked progressively harder. Nothing ever got better. Replies from them only gave me lip service. Fuck sprint. Die die die Sprint. I hope you fail to purchase and get a big fat juicy penalty like ATT did.

A lot of people despise ATT, and they tried to buy Tmobile
A lot of people despise Sprint, and they tried to buy Tmobile

Is there a pattern? :) Im sure some people despise Tmobile, but in my unscientific observation, I don't see too many people hating on Tmobile like Sprint and ATT
 
Should be vice versa, but anyways...

Sprint has hit the dead end. I don't care as long as J. Legere keeps its CEO position and the network quality increases.
 
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