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The Sprint/T-Mobile merger: A jump-the-shark moment for antitrust?

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    Akir
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    About all I can say about this is "... yeah." The only good thing about this is that T-Sprint is supposedly going to get the radio spectrum it needed to start rolling out it's version 5G that is...

    About all I can say about this is "... yeah."

    The only good thing about this is that T-Sprint is supposedly going to get the radio spectrum it needed to start rolling out it's version 5G that is supposed to be massively more useful than the nanometer wave garbage that Verizon and AT&T are currently banking on.

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    1. papasquat
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      The entire wireless industry needs a heavy regulatory overhaul. The fact is right now that the reality of limited spectrum combined with the need to get right of way easements for towers and...

      The entire wireless industry needs a heavy regulatory overhaul. The fact is right now that the reality of limited spectrum combined with the need to get right of way easements for towers and everything that comes with that makes for a pretty clear natural monopoly.
      I wish the people actually selling the service were prohibited from being the same people operating the towers, so things like individually and municipality owned towers could be a thing, and sane standards, so the whole question of "Will this phone work on verizon/att/tmobile" becomes moot. It's insanity that I can be looking at a cell tower and have zero bars of services because I just happened to not pay the correct people at that given moment in time.

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    2. Weldawadyathink
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      There is also the fact that this puts t-sprint at around the same subscribers as AT&T and Verizon. Now, we can have 3 roughly equal competitors instead of 2 on top and 2 on bottom. As long as...

      There is also the fact that this puts t-sprint at around the same subscribers as AT&T and Verizon. Now, we can have 3 roughly equal competitors instead of 2 on top and 2 on bottom. As long as t-sprint continues the strides t-mobile has made, I think this will benefit consumers.

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