Not Buying the No Buyout.
The FCC has already entertained the ok for the Tmo/ATT merge. This is due partly because Verizon is not contesting the merge. If Verizon is not interested in Sprint, this allows the perception that there will still be a valid source of choice for the consumers.
Since Cricket and MetroPCS are entities in many cities, ATT is trying to leverage these much smaller carriers such like Cricket and MetroPCS as options for consumers. To add Sprint into the mix, is yet another carrier choice with even more coverage. With a metropolitan area with 3-4 choices, The FCC can view this as enough competition for consumers to choose from. Sounds legitimate until it is all said and done. Once the opposition has been given the option to acquire an entity li...
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It sure doesn't. The prices will be the same. Publicly, AT&T and Verizon will trumpet the idea of Sprint as a worthy competitor but privately they will snicker. There is money to be made selling air. Lots of it...
MetroPCS or Cricket's coverage area and types of services offered are inferior to those of Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, or T-Mobile. I highly doubt that the big four carriers worry about the small stuff like MetroPCS or Cricket.
Verizon said they weren't interested in the iPhone also !!
Verizon also said that a few years it turned down the iPhone when they launched the voyager...they have the iPhone now so obviously they lied...just like they know they would aquire sprint.
Very true... they said the same about the palm pre. This is just verizon trying to save face because they wont be number one anymore and Sprint is not going down without a fight. Verizon knows this. believe none of the media hype verizon puts out for ...
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I mean they actually scoffed at the notion...repeatedly. I am sure that AT&T wasn't interested in T-Mobile either. I mean the idea is too far fetched for any reporter to have posed with a straight face...but it happened. This is how deals get done....
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great point Verizon is the evil empire of wireless