Sprint Nextel To Merge Friday

I'm not just talking about this merger, but everyone wants to look to who is buying who now. Cingular buys AT&T, Alltel buys Western Wireless, people speculate on who will buy Dobson or Cellular One. People want Verizon to buy out other small CDMA carriers of its type. Sprint buying Nextel and people look at it enthusiasticly even wanting mergers like its a good thing. and outside of that media mergers, car companies, and everything else. Just this country loves monopolies lately. I'm waiting for a Verizon and Cingular merger to be cheered on...

It's not monopoly. It's called consolidation. It's good for the industry. Sometimes people forget that companies are in business for one thing... to make a profit. In cutthroat industries like telecom, media, airline, etc. consolidation is sometimes the only way to improve the "bigger" picture, meaning the industry as a whole.

Do you support globalization also?

Ford owns Kia and Volvo. Toyota builds cars in North America. Whether you like it or not, globalization is here.

Do you support American companies expanding outside the U.S. for profit?

consolidation my ass, its a nice way of saying monopoly for those who like it.

although i agree americans seem to be in love with corporate consolidation. the merging of carriers is far from creating a monopoly here. this especially true once you start comparing our conditions to those of our developed countries. ma bell had already been busted up by the time carriers were popping up here, so we never got a state-sponsored national carrier. in many countries, even though there are competitors, the carrier that grew out of the national phone company have 50% of the market. what other carriers there are a fighting for a minority stake at best unless they can manage to gain momentum and take a run at the incumbent. also, even after consolidation we still have far more carrier choices than most countries, and thanks to the...
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mvno is an illusion of choice, you cant stand in front of a sprint and say "I'm sick of your company! im changing to virgin mobile!" im not really talking about conditions as they are, and especially not about compared to other countries, but what the future holds, near future even. with all these kids on the boards saying ___ is buying ___ or ___ will buy ___ or i wish ___ would buy ___ and on every forum its in the topic, and its not so much that it is happening or will happen, its more that people cheer it on. thats my only real grievance.

Well in an open market place their is in general a rule of three. Meaning that the market can only support 3 major brands. This is what capitalism is supposed to do. We are mearly seeing this theory taking place in wireless. The industry has been so competitive and diversified it was bound to happen. This will certainly not be the last either.