Sprint: AT&T and T-Mobile Merger Would Create Duopoly

If VZN and ATT wanted to maintain most of their customer base, they would want to modify their plans as much as possible to better compete with the smaller companies. In some ways, it's the smaller companies that keep the bigger ones honest. If too many people started to switch to smaller and more reasonable carriers plans, even though most of them aren't as good as the larger ones on their own, they a lot of them rely on roaming deals with the larger carriers. With that being said, the FCC could strongly suggest(make cough, cough)ATT and VZN restructure plans to give the consumer better deals. Especially ATT, when this merger goes through.

The only real issue with consumers as I see it, are the plans. They're expensive and if the larger ...
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You people who are bashing Sprint for going after this merger are insane in the membrane. Unless you like $150 per line phone bills, you should be supporting Sprint in this cause. Dan Hesse really seems to be a genuine, honest guy keeping things fair with his customers (how about UNLIMITED data is UNLIMITED being one example!!!!). From Sprint to Virgin to Boost, he has run things very customer-focused and fairly. If Dan Hesse would be the guy in charge of the Deathstar (ATT) after this merger, I would probably be OK with that because he is ethical. He is totally unlike the people in charge of AT&T & Verizon now who take the American public for fools and think we are just their sheeple they aim to control & rob from our wallets at will.

Im so tired of hearing Sprint cry about this sale. Calling it a duopoly before it even happens is like they're giving up the fight before the fight has even started

Anybody?...... 😳

T-Mobile says, "we have the best 4G network in the nation!" at&t responds by buying them. Is that how that works? (I'm just barely getting back in to the Phone Scoop world, so please have mercy on me.)

And well, the idea that there is no competition in the market.

Please don't allow the government to get involved in this stuff. It's insane!

You want faster Internet on your phone? let this go through!
You want better coverage? let this go through!
You want more competition and innovation??? LET THIS GO THROUGH!!!

Who is so unbelievably blinded by irrational fear that they honestly believe that this merger will not be good for everyone??

Do we really need the government to step in and stifle competitive moves like the one AT&T is making??

Has anyone actually paid attention? Anyone read some logical arguments on this? Or economics in general???

Is ANYONE here actually knowledgeable on this topic?

Atlas Shrugged.......
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I am sick and tired (and very saddened) by the current Sprint management. I have worked in the industry a long time (even with Sprint directly) and it is very sad how Sprint has been mismanaged. They have engaged in a policy of lies and mistruths with their own customer base and to the public in general. Yes, the AT&T/T-Mobile merger is a big threat to Sprint but the current state of Sprint can only be blamed on SPRINT and NOBODY else! I am in the Detroit market and I have seen Sprint lie to their own customers about the 4G launch...engage in unethical practices to lock their customers into new contracts and then threaten them with legal action if they break the contract and attempt to win contracts based on lies. Honestly, AT&T, Verizon and...
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Stop blaming others for your own shortcomings. You got yourselves into the mess that you're in. Now you want waste millions of dollars by taking on Ma Bell? What are you stupid? Ma Bell has Washington bought already. This is a done done nobody how you slice it.

Why don't you put the money you're using to fight the merger to much better use like improving your crappy WiMAX network or doing a deal with LightSquared.

Cause honestly, Sprint you're in over your heads. Ma Bell will eat you alive and when she's through, you're gonna begging for Big Red to save you only Big Red doesn't need or want you.

This is all that matters. All the other BS you guys post about Sprint is immaterial. This merger does not make any sense.

WASHINGTON, DC - Sprint CEO Dan Hesse has announced that in an effort to stop the impending doom that the AT&T-mobile merger will cause, he is traveling to the FCC on Monday to throw a temper tantrum on the sidewalk in front of the offices of the Commission until he gets his way. When asked about the reason for this new campaign, Hesse said "At Sprint, we care about our customers, and the entire world. If AT&T is allowed to purchase T-Mobile, a crack will open in the crust of the Earth between Missouri and Kansas. Hoards of Demonic forces will emerge and evil will rule for 1,000 years. Oh, and there won't be any competition." 🤣

It is a harsh reality but somehow Sprint has to work very hard to compete. 🙂

I'm sure their stockholders are pleased.

Cant compete so he cries.

AT&T has set up an "astroturfing" web site to promote the merger:

http://www.mobilizeeverything.com/ »

On this web site, AT&T displays supposed future LTE coverage maps. Side by side, one map depicts future LTE coverage under the current plan, another depicts future LTE coverage if the merger is approved. AT&T claims that the merger can allow it to use T-Mobile spectrum to expand LTE coverage to rural areas. Unfortunately, that claim is, at best, a half truth, at worst, an outright lie.

Comparison of the supposed future LTE coverage maps with current AT&T coverage maps shows that AT&T would deploy LTE only where it has existing Cellular 850 MHz and/or PCS 1900 MHz coverage. In fact, the propagation characteristics & coverage holes...
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'Stifling competition' yadda, yadda, yadda...

Dan, we all know you're only worried about Sprint being left in the dust.

But he has a point. It would create a duopoly. I'm against this merger.