Sprint Working on a $20 billion Bid for T-Mobile

[Luke]

Sprint is reportedly working on a $20 billion bid for T-Mobile. What do you think of the third and fourth biggest cellular giants in the US possibly merging? Are you a customer and do you think it would be good or bad? 🙂

AT&T tried to purchase T-Mobile for $39 billion but wasn't allowed by the Justice Department due to them not thinking it was in the countries best interested to have 100 million+ customers in the same company with regard to competitors - so it would be interesting to see if this bid would even ever make it past the Justice Department.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1 ... 1000513396 (you'll need a subscription to see that).

 

[iPhonefreak]

I hope AT&T throws at fit to the DOJ like Sprint did when AT&T tried to buy TMO. Plus, TMO is GSM and Sprint is CDMA. Won't really work.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/06/sprint ... le-merger/

 

[Black Angel]

If this deal happens, I am going back to tin cans and string.

I left Sprint for T-mobile and I have been happy since.

 

[jhony117]

Might be possible AT&T purchase it.

 

[Gamer Outpost]

I highly doubt that would work, as iPhonefreak mentioned.

I don't really see the problem with having AT&T buy T-Mobile though, as they are both GSM. Having over 100 million subscribers is not that much when you throw in all of the other carriers. I mean Microsoft controls way more of their market (desktop and laptop OS) than AT&T + T-Mobile would together. Verizon, Sprint, and U.S. Cellular would be more than enough to keep AT&T from becoming a monopoly.