But Softbank just bought Sprint recently. And the Feds had good reasons why a merger of Sprint and T-Mobile wasn't going to be approved. Presumably those reasons might even be stronger if Big G were involved now.

Being an MVNO, if it's done right, should help get more subscribers to Sprint and T-Mobile, help drive down prices, and help Google understand more about how to run a huge subscriber network (which should help them with planning for their other wireless and fiber efforts).

We'll see what happens.

Cheers,
Scott.