wouldn't be the first time
they almost did a deal in 2004-5
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SoftBank's deep pockets should make it easier now.
SoftBank seems to realize that they need to spend the time and the money to make Sprint a player. The guy at the helm there turned around Vodafone's Japan group after SoftBank bought it.
http://www.reuters.c...BRE98T18D20130930 Some are comparing this to T-Mobile's management seems to be much more consumer friendly than Sprint's at the moment, but SoftBank shouldn't let Sprint's history decide who runs things in the merged operation. I expect they'll keep a close eye on the company, and not assume the guys in Kansas are the best people to run things. But we'll see. It might just be people spitballing at the moment (though Deutsche Telecom's apparent desire to exit T-Mobile makes it a compelling story). Cheers, Scott. |
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douche telecomm has been trtying to exit tmobile for years
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Re: "both were GSM"
Nein, or at least not quite. Verizon has been CDMA. Now LTE that everyone is transitioning to is derived from GSM.
Alex
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Ack. Thanks for catching that. AT&T tried to eat T-Mobile.
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AT&T is so far behind...
on infrastructure they need to spend billions... in fact so much more that they can't really do it.
They used to be buying cellular providers and their networks to increase coverage and "throughput"... but they did it wrong. They need to spend an inordinate amount of money to catch up to where Verizon really is and T-MOBILE WOULD HAVE TAKEN THEM FURTHER BEHIND IN 2004-5. Now sprint is eeeking out a living and needs to do something to step up. --
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