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[ NNSquad ] Will T-Mobile Buy Sprint? (And then there were three ...)
This AP story discusses the speculation that T-Mobile will buy Sprint/Nextel. As the article notes, the technical hurdles for any consolidation are considerable, given that T-Mobile uses GSM/WCDMA and Sprint mainly CDMA. Since T-Mobile also uses GSM/WCDMA globally, it's hard to see Sprint CDMA lasting long in such an environment. On the other hand, T-Mobile might just sit on the dual networks (maybe playing some frequency swap games) until WiMAX and such are further evolved. However, the bottom line for everyone could be higher subscriber prices in any case. That is, if such a merger were approved. http://bit.ly/2jqlNp --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator