Oh come on! Lets hope for the best ey?
I was with Sprint for fifteen years. I finally gave up "hoping for the best," where Sprint was concerned, this summer. I see nothing out of either Sprint or Softbank to give me cause for hope.
This is not going to be a "merger," regardless of what they call it. It's going to be Softbank acquiring a controlling interest in T-Mobile. Period. Now: Tell me what
you've seen from Softbank to inspire you.
And they should remain as separate companies as well.
Yes, they should.
I guess, so there's more competition.
More so that Softbank (let's start calling them who they really are, shall we?) cannot destroy TMO's bold initiatives. What T-Mobile's doing now is revolutionary for the U.S. wireless market. Do not believe, for a New York Heartbeat, that Softbank, Verizon Wireless and "at&t" don't want to see this stopped in its tracks.
But I really want Sprint to be GSM instead of CDMA.
Here's a wild idea: Why don't you just switch to a GSM wireless carrier, then? There are two of them with a national footprint in the U.S., you know.
Subscriber numbers as of 3Q 2013: Softbank's Sprint: 53M, TMO: 44M (approx. 20% of which is MetroPCS CDMA, btw). Do you honestly believe Softbank is going to buy T-Mobile, then say to themselves "Our new TMO holding is GSM, except for the MetroPCS part, which is CDMA, so let's convert all of our Sprint holdings' sites to GSM, and alienate all our Sprint holdings' customers."
Seriously?
Especially given the fact that Japan, whence Softbank is located, is entirely CDMA?
My "hoping for the best" is hoping that either Softbank abandons this idea or that U.S. regulators shoot it down.
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