Dish Details Deal to Become Fourth National Carrier
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What are we gaining?
T-mobile buys Sprint and then sells it to Dish. So we go from 4 companies to 3 companies and then create a fourth company again? Wouldn't it be easier for Dish to have just bought Sprint? I think these boys have way too much money to play with.
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Dish isn't getting Sprint. They're getting scraps; not enough to be a serious fourth national carrier (at least without an additional $100 billion investment, which isn't happening.)
You're right that it's silly, though. The DoJ insists that having a 4th carrier is important. And it is. But while this deal sounds like it could possibly do that, in reality there is almost no way that will happen. If it happens at all, Dish will be a niche player with a crummy network... at best. This deal will not accomplish the thing that the DoJ says it must. It's a sham.
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Not to mention that it will be much cheaper for Dish to pay the FCC the $2+ Billion fine for not building out and relying on TMobile network than to build their own in that time frame. It will cost considerably MORE than $2B, so paying a fine that small gives Dish ZERO incentive. If anything what will happen is Dish will end up selling back the spectrum and prepaid customers to TMobile later on anyway. All this is, is a way to temporarily pull the wool over our eyes that we are going to legitimately go from 4 carriers to 3 carriers. We all know what happens when you kill off competition, the carriers all fix their prices near the same and offer the same crap. Netherlands, France, Germany, UK even, and Canada, don't even get me started on Can...
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“We”as in the public? The public gains nothing. In a few years, the combined Sprint/T-Mobile entity will acquire whatever physical assets and spectrum Dish has at that time. Dish will pay whatever fine the FCC assesses and life will go on. This is similar to the Deal which created Verizon. Alltel held on long enough to be acquired by the entity whose spun off had made them a serious regional carrier in the first place.Im not sure why anyone even pretends anymore.
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