Deutsche Telekom May Sell T-Mobile USA to Sprint
The best chance of avoiding a duopoly
Look at the consequences if something like this doesn't happen soon.
T-mobile and Sprint subscribers will gradually bleed off into AT&T and Verizon because they command greater market share and are only growing.
I don't see an immediate technological problem, because dual-band CDMA/GSM phones are already commonplace and it wouldn't be hard (or expensive) to engineer all new phones to be dual technology. The LTE or WiMAX choice seems like a bigger problem than the GSM/CDMA problem. Every handset will get $20 more expensive, but that's pennies compared to the savings realized by the consolidation.
Not a terrible move. Not by a long shot. It would give the new SpriNexTmob the subscriber base and the (high quality) spectrum d...
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T-mobile and Sprint subscribers will gradually bleed off into AT&T and Verizon because they command greater market share and are only growing.
I don't see an immediate technological problem, because dual-band CDMA/GSM phones are already commonplace and it wouldn't be hard (or expensive) to engineer all new phones to be dual technology. The LTE or WiMAX choice seems like a bigger problem than the GSM/CDMA problem. Every handset will get $20 more expensive, but that's pennies compared to the savings realized by the consolidation.
Not a terrible move. Not by a long shot. It would give the new SpriNexTmob the subscriber base and the (high quality) spectrum d...
(continues)
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