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There's more to it than that; T-Mobile US wants to run the merged carrier and (surprisingly, to me at least) retain the T-Mobile brand even though Deutsche Telekom won't be part of the new company. I suspect that portends to trying to shift everyone over to UMTS/W-CDMA + LTE before VoLTE is fully baked, which would be a churn disaster. http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=14052 I read these moves as a poison pill in the negotiations. I don't think Son wants to license the T-Mobile brand name (remember, he rebranded Vodafone Japan to stop paying licensing fees to Vodafone, and Sprint is planning to ditch the licensed Virgin brand too). Frankly I think a network hosting or network sharing arrangement like EE or Telus/Bell on the companies' combined 600 winnings, along with (as I've said before) buying out the CCA carriers before the duopoly does, is a far better path forward for Softbank and leaves Legere and Telekom to deal with the consequences of their loss-leading customer acquisition strategy on Softbank's terms rather than the bailout coming out of Son's wallet and ultimately both companies' customers' wallets.
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RT @NewAmerica: The #Piketty Problem: Why taxing the rich won't solve inequality http://t.co/CethdCLriX http://t.co/0ztaB5P1m8
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RT @joelmchale: Thanks Community fans for being the greatest that have ever walked the earth & Thanks @danharmon for letting me be on the c…
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RT @rolldiggity: NBC can cancel Community, but they can't cancel what's really important: the money I was paid to write for Community.
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It's entirely possible Sprint is doing connection redistribution behind the scenes, but not sending out press releases to that effect.
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RT @EllieWallace: WaPo: Charlie Crist didn't leave the Republican party because of racism. He left it because he couldn't win a primary htt…
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RT @Rachel__Nichols: Keep seeing FarmersOnly ads. Would love to see the research convincing them the NBA playoffs are a great way to hit th…
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RT @bethp1387: "I left you a voicemail." You honestly might as well have written it on a post-it and thrown it into the sea.
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RT @blakehounshell: " A leading Venezuelan newspaper is cutting the size of its daily editions because of a newsprint shortage." http://t.c…
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RT @baseballcrank: Victory. RT @mcgregorrichard: RT @changeist: The end of history, in one sign. http://t.co/acq74T4sf5”
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RT @BBCWorld: Is South Africa in danger of becoming new Zimbabwe? @BBCAndrewH previews Wednesday's election http://t.co/ILhI5NtiCN
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RT @ForeignPolicy: Why "Enlisted" is the best show on television no one is watching. http://t.co/wTKNlDwnlD http://t.co/s06DL28F0r
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RT @BigMeanInternet: Now *this* would be a funny movie, right? "There was only *one* way they could avoid paying back their loans..," http:…
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RT @AthertonKD: Yeah but how many of those 288,000 jobs are just guessing where MH370 is on-air for CNN?
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As an Air Force brat, I say we need a show like "Enlisted." FP agrees: http://t.co/6wS4gqL1CW
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In fairness it's @fivethirtyeight's graph, not Kevin's. So the lack of error bars is on Nate.
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Honestly if the plan is to compete on a nationwide basis with AT&T and Verizon, T-Mobile doesn't get you there; there's so little non-overlap in footprint that SprinTMobile's not going to be a truly national carrier. If the concern is that AT&T and Verizon are going to buy out the CCA, then the smart play for Son is to buy those carriers out and build out the smaller urban/suburban centers and major highway corridors they don't cover. The one thing T-Mobile has is a lot of customers... but they're customers that are likely to bolt the second Sprint tries to move them onto CDMA and/or AT&T and Verizon decide to get serious about price competitiveness. Plus the time to buy was before Legere's pump-and-dump strategy was underway; the "uncarrier" customers are easy pickings for AT&T in particular, who can put them onto nuCricket with nothing more than a SIM swap (with no need to pay ETFs).
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RT @HKellenbergerCL: RT @FBSchedules: Georgia Southern has officially announced that they will play at Ole Miss on Oct. 8, 2016.
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RT @38Godfrey: Again I beg you all: If you can find this on a t-shirt, I'll pay top dollar: https://t.co/vRRgrEg1F5
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RT @IrishMirror: Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams arrested in relation to Jean McConville murder investigation.http://t.co/E33naeDPlA http://t…
