Analyst: Dish could gain in T-Mobile Sprint Merger

[nicemann]

IIRC, Cingular used to be called 360. Can't remember the name prior to that.

I believe at one time it was also called Cellular One, at least in some states. So many mergers over the years its hard to keep track.

 

[fr8flyr]

I just switched from Sprint to T Mobile and couldn't be happier to get rid of Sprint. T Mobile paid for my early termination fee and paid off my iPhone. I now have 2 phones with unlimited data, for what it was costing me with Sprint for 1 phone with 2 Gig data limit. I hope the merger doesn't go through, Sprint could only contaminate T Mobile.

 

[ncted]

IIRC, Cingular used to be called 360. Can't remember the name prior to that.

Totally depends on where you live(d). 360 became Alltel, but Cingular ended up with some of the markets due to merger requirements. Ironically, 360 started out as Sprint Cellular.

 

[navychop]

Ok. Watch carefully as I move the shells around. Which one has the pea under it?

 

[dare2be]

Ok. Watch carefully as I move the shell companies around. Which one has the pea under it?

Fixed.

 

[pattykay]

Totally depends on where you live(d). 360 became Alltel, but Cingular ended up with some of the markets due to merger requirements. Ironically, 360 started out as Sprint Cellular.

Yes, there is a store near me where the facade was obviously designed to accommodate the old Sprint logo. The name changed several times, and I remember seeing all of those brands on that building at some point or another.

 

[navychop]

All providers are Taco Cell?


:haha

 

[ncted]

Exclusive: SoftBank calling off talks to merge Sprint, T-Mobile- Nikkei Asian Review

Not sure what this might mean for Dish.

 

[comfortably_numb]

Exclusive: SoftBank calling off talks to merge Sprint, T-Mobile- Nikkei Asian Review

Not sure what this might mean for Dish.

Not sure what it means for Dish, but it's obvious that Masayoshi Son doesn't want to cede leadership to John Legere.

 

[MikeD-C05]

Not sure what it means for Dish, but it's obvious that Masayoshi Son doesn't want to cede leadership to John Legere.

Same reason why Charlie wouldn’t merge with T mobile. He wants all the control.

 

[ncted]

Or at the very least, Son and Charlie are not comfortable just handing over assets to someone else to manage. Dish and Sprint should merge and then have a CEO cage match to determine who would run the combined company.

 

[navychop]

So the merger is a done deal. Until it isn't.

Happy Happy Joy Joy!


I thought the merger a bad deal for T-Mo. And to let the folks that have failed with Sprint run the whole shooting match- and have the proven performer take a back seat- well, that's as dumb an idea as buying Nextel. Oh, wait!...

 

[comfortably_numb]

So the merger is a done deal. Until it isn't.

Happy Happy Joy Joy!


I thought the merger a bad deal for T-Mo. And to let the folks that have failed with Sprint run the whole shooting match- and have the proven performer take a back seat- well, that's as dumb an idea as buying Nextel. Oh, wait!...

Exactly. John Legere has the better track record among the 2 companies

 

[ncted]

As we suspected: Source: Egos 'Cloud' Sprint/T-Mobile Talks | Light Reading

 

[navychop]

Let us drive a stake thru this zombie's heart!

 

[ncted]

Let us drive a stake thru this zombie's heart!

http://www.portlandmercury.com/news/how-to-kill-a-zombie/Content?oid=32136

 

[navychop]

But these are JAPANESE zombies!

 

[comfortably_numb]

If the two companies combine, they would be fools not to let John Legere run it. He's taken T-Mobile from a 4th rate carrier to a true contender in the wireless marketplace. But, this is Sprint we're talking about. They don't know how to make a good decision.

 

[Bobby]

Let us drive a stake thru this zombie's heart!

That ain't gonna work. Zombies don't have a heartbeat. Anyone who watches The Walking Dead knows that it takes a headshot to put it down!

 

[Voyager6]

This is SoftBank talking not Sprint. SoftBank is not willing to give up their 80% control of Sprint to T-Mobile.
Sprint reportedly calling off T-Mobile merger talks

Since T-Mobile has over 10 million more US phone subscribers than Sprint, it had been widely assumed that the combined company would primarily be owned by Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile’s parent company. It sounded like Softbank was fine with that, but according to Nikkei, it’s not. Softbank’s board reportedly voted on Friday not to give up control of the combined company and therefore to call off merger negotiations.