At the time, TMobile was at 33 a share in which Sprint was willing to pay 40 a share, than comes Illiad offering 33 a share, than sprint back out, TMobile dropped to 30 a share, and is currently now sitting at 29.82 a share
Now sites are posting this to show how things are in the cellphone carrier industry. http://www.phonearena.com/news/The-history-of-U.S.-carriers-visualized-or-how-we-settled-on-the-big-four-AT-T-Verizon-Sprint-and-T-Mobile_id59091
And the caveat is AT&T doesn't want you having unlimited use on U-Verse with out paying a hefty fee. SO what good is a 1gb connection if you can't use it to it's fullest extent with out running into a AT&T cap?
Most businesses buy the phones thru there business accounts which gets sent to them by FedEx, UPS, and postal service which hardly ever see customers come into a store to pick them up.
I know some people are glad this is over. I know this group doesn't exactly have a bunch of blackberry users in it, but there was a fear of if Legere took over that he would lose the blackberry contact on here like he did with tmobile back in April and sprint does have a bunch of blackberry users.
Here is something that will make your day, on T-Mobile news, the fan boys are glad that the deal is off, bit pissed that it wasn't official and that there are no break up f fees.
Article didn't state that Verizon borrowing billions to buy out Vodafone or what AT&T wants to buy DirecTV which will cost then over 50 billion. So those numbers of the big 2 are being passed on to the customers and offering fewer services.