sprint / t-mobile merger...takeover?

[SporkLover]

Right now is probably the best time if any, for a company to gobble up Sprint and migrate their them to another technology. Companies are in the midst of rolling out 4G network technology.... which is a pretty major network upgrade..... can make the switch to GSM Voice, and LTE based data over the next few years.

Heck.... they can even just start phasing out CDMA devices and migrate users over, making them get new handsets if they choose to stick with the company.

It would be hella expensive. 10B is what Sprint's Market Capitalization is at these days, plus money for major network migration, plus building incentives to keep existing Sprint customers, and subsidize their purchases for new phones. Almost not worth it.

[Noir]

I was against this in 07 and in 2 years, not much has changed

[cornelious2]

id honestly like to see all the carriers on one band, and right now the competition is really just VZW vs ATT so a gobble of sprint by tmobile could be a really good thing, I think the numbers would put the new tmob at numbers similar to ATT its much harder to get 3 companies to play nice then it is for 2. If they could figure out how to get a cdma - gsm handoff like verizon did with LTE it could be a GREAT move.

[sorge]

Does T Mobile actually have the money to eat up sprint? Sprints is bigger then tmobileusa, with a lot of debt. Right now Verizon wants Altell customers to become verizon customers.....how would that work with Tmobile and sprint. If anything, people would be more likely to migrate to sprint, then from sprint to tmobile. If you wanted Tmobile, you'd have it already, their credit requirements are a joke....but then again sprint just reduced theirs.

[cornelious2]

tmobile worldwide is way large enough to snap sprint up.

[shaggylive]

sprint should sell them nextel. dump that boat anchor.