GinaDee

Arguments are weak when your only rebuttal is an attack on her commentary using some sexist remark. Class act for sure. She may not be a huge Sprint fan but who cares. It/s her opinion. I'd say more people dislike Sprint in the industry then defend them. Sprint will earn her fans as her network improves.

She 's a woman with an opinion. OMG. Let's resort to the vibrator jokes.

In business, especially retail, you need to think like the consumer. Not everyone takes the high ground on ethics. As a business owner I'd be out of business if I relied on my customers being overly informed. I make sure my staff understands customer pain points and recommends products and services based on intelligence. I remind them to think like the customer. When both the customer and the sales staff are ill-informed you have a disaster waiting to happen.

These transactions require the suitor to finance such a deal. They will approach banks to garner the capital needed.

The combined companies would preserve four national wireless players, add tons of spectrum to T-Mobile's arsenal and the combined company would have more clout to participate and bid at any upcoming 600 MHz auction. The value of Dish' spectrum has more than doubled since 2008 and will likely grow with the addition of the H block.

Absolutely! It's like politics and religion. Most people only believe what they want to.

T- Tech sites will love or hate any carrier or product. For the moment T-Mobile is hot. A couple of years back they were on their deathbed. Should that change again the bloggers will show them disdain.

If Sprint and T-Mobile don't merge and Sprint's NV picks up the pace later next year Legere likely start to target them too moreso. I believe Dan Hesse will open up the marketing machine next Summer once Spark covers enough POPS to market. Last time I remember T-Mo mentioning Sprint in a negative ad was here:

What is Legere up to this time around? According to this guy: http://www.tmonews.com/2013/12/john-legere-teases-uncarrier-4-0-on-twitter/#disqus_thread "TMO is readying a program code-named "Houdini" which will give ATT and VZ customers up to $350 to offset early termination fees. There will be an instant trade-in and a follow-up credit when the cuts submits their final bill from ATT or VZ. Program launches around 1/8. It's a major effort within TMO right now -- as big as JUMP was last spring."

Perhaps you don't like women who engage you in debate but I'd like to think any public internet discussion board grows stale when posters are only allowed to post comments through rose colored glasses. I get it. I used to work for an MVNO of Sprint and the Sprint fanboys on my team thought Sprint could do no wrong. You'd be right here with me if I was 2011 and I was arguing against the AT&T buyout of T-Mobile. At first I was for it but then after discovering the PR lie machine was in full effect my opinion of AT&T buying T-Mobile evolved. Yes I do have an issue with a Japanese billionaire owning such a large stake in an American iconic wireless telecom unit. I believe Sprint was so mismanaged it dug itself into the hell hole it fell into and an American household brand got outsourced. I much rather a US based and majority owned company buy T-Mobile from the hands of DT than Softbank.

**scratches head*** Okay got ya.

I'm no more of a biased shill to AT&T as you are to Sprint and your anti incumbent brigade. The topic on hand here is not AT&T. We're discussing the potential buyout of a vibrant competitor. Sprint buying T-Mobile is not good for customers so much as it's good for Softbank's pockets. Let's not forget the facts. Sprint's panacea is learning to execute and finish what they started not trying to squash their more successful and smaller competitor. That's my opinion. Sorry you don't agree.

Yes that is correct! lol Where do you want me to ship your T-Mobile magenta T-Shirt?

This is a typical Gary Forsee move. Keep dabbing into everything at the same time but never finish anything.

Det_Conan_Kudo makes great points. A lot of posters here state opinions of T-Mobile that are just based on conjecture. The way I see it any success by T-Mobile will earn the ire of Sprint fanboys.

Exactly! This is why the brains at Sprint scare me. They'd spend 10 years trying to migrate everyone over to 1xRTT while the rest of the world already moved on. If they seriously would want to battle AT&T and steal their subs they don't do it with 2G CDMA.

Will Sprint's advanced LTE network support simultaneous voice and data for devices that access all 3 LTE bands?

If this really goes down I hope Sprint uses Milan and retain the entire T-Mobile network team. Those guys really know what they are doing. Let them remain in charge. My mood would be softened if I knew Sprint would adopt 3GPP standards and maintain a HSPA+/LTE network in favor of the older CDMA networks and allow any compatible HSPA+/LTE device (BYOD) onto their network without contract. I hate Sprint's current methods of manual activations, locked down devices and whitelists that prevent BYOD.

Got it!

Sprint could upgrade its network without T-Mobile. Adding T-Mobile to the mix would further delay Sprint's delayed NV rollout

Do you know Charlie personally? Your comments sound like your vitirol for him is personal.

As much as I am not a fan of Dish (Direct TV fan here) I'd rather an American company like them buy out T-Mobile USA and keep an American owned wireless provider here in the States finally shedding their Euro roots. The only thing I did not like back in the day as a former Dish customer was their terrible offshore customer service. Other than that I really had no major issues with them. Dish could help fund upcoming AWS or 600 MHz spectrum options down the road.

If Softbank was serious I would imagine they'd abandon plans on promoting and expanding CDMA in favor of an HSPA/LTE network building upon T-Mobile's infrastructure. No more manually having to activate phones and finally being able to use any globally compatible phone on their network. T-Mobile is doing it right with Metro PCS. No more CDMA activations. When you upgrade or replace the phone must be compatible with HSPA/LTE. I'm trying to picture the nightmare an inefficiency of two massive billing systems, hundreds of varying grandfathered rate plans, two completely differing corporate cultures and two incompatible voice networks while trying to implement Network Vision that is already falling behind schedule.

Wasn't that the point of an all American carrier being swallowed and bowing down to a foreign Japanese billionaire? Wasn't that the reason they had to buyout Clearwire? Sprint has a sugar daddy with money They have all the spectrum in the world; more than any other US carrier. The only thing holding them back is themselves. They don't need T-Mobile to compete with AT&T. That is a poor excuse. A few weeks ago Sprint was the savior. The untouchable. Network Vision was going to rule the day in 2012, or 2013 or 2014. Verizon was supposed to be quaking in her boots because Mr. Son was going to create the best network on earth. I hope any planned buyout by the Japanese is stopped.

Sprint would have no reason to keep unlimited data and lower prices if it had the scaleable size, bulk and network size of AT&T or Verizon. They only do it because they have to right now. It's obvious that Sprint was never really against "reducing competition," in the AT&T-T-Mo deal despite their pretense. They were just afraid of being in last place among the top four. Screw the customer.