Posted on May 13, 2020
Sprint–T-Mobile Has All the Hallmarks of a Bad Tech Merger. Why Is It Going Through?
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Democratic policymakers, consumer protection experts, and antitrust experts have vehemently contended that the merger will only make it easier for the companies to eliminate thousands of jobs and jack up prices for consumers, all without giving them any real reason to improve their networks. In addition to concerning procedural irregularities, the merger will bring the number of major mobile service providers from four to three (plus a propped-up Dish, which antitrust experts are skeptical will become a viable competitor), further consolidating an already anti-competitive sector and making it easier for those companies to gouge their customers.
Given the recent concerns raised by conservatives about privacy and competition, one might expect a more negative reaction to the Sprint–T-Mobile deal from Republicans, and a more skeptical treatment of the merger as it progressed from the FCC to the DOJ and eventually to a federal court challenge.
Given the recent concerns raised by conservatives about privacy and competition, one might expect a more negative reaction to the Sprint–T-Mobile deal from Republicans, and a more skeptical treatment of the merger as it progressed from the FCC to the DOJ and eventually to a federal court challenge.
Sprint–T-Mobile Has All the Hallmarks of a Bad Tech Merger. Why Is It Going Through?
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SGT Herbert Bollum Loss of Revenue and Jobs for Overland Park, KS and Kansas City. Move Revenue, Jobs in Seattle. I'm still not moving back to the Seattle Metro.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
PFC Nicholas Efstathiou With No Teddy Roosevelts around nothing to Stand in Their Way.
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Here’s what I know...
I worked for Nextel, Sprint took them over and forced the senior members of engineering groups to move to Kansas City. Laid off the rest.
Fast forward a few years, Sprint fired the entire engineering organization and brought everyone back at 2/3 or less of their salaries as contract employees for Ericsson.
I went to work for MetroPCS for nearly 8 years. TMobile took over MetroPCS 8 years ago, within three years, nearly every MetroPCS engineering group was let go. But at least they gave decent severance packages unlike Sprint. TMobile dismantled the entire MetroPCS network (which was nearly identical to industry leading Verizon). MetroPCS only value was their spectrum (frequencies their network had licensed).
Now Sprint is taking over T-Mobile. This will be interesting. Most likely all the engineering and technical staff will be let go once Sprint gains control and integrates the T-Mobile network. All the money T-Mobile invested in their network will be scrapped as the only value they have is their Spectrum.
Very unfortunate, but I’m thankful for my education from my GI Bill that got me hired into GM. So glad to be out of communications for such a heavily underpaid and constantly shrinking industry.
I worked for Nextel, Sprint took them over and forced the senior members of engineering groups to move to Kansas City. Laid off the rest.
Fast forward a few years, Sprint fired the entire engineering organization and brought everyone back at 2/3 or less of their salaries as contract employees for Ericsson.
I went to work for MetroPCS for nearly 8 years. TMobile took over MetroPCS 8 years ago, within three years, nearly every MetroPCS engineering group was let go. But at least they gave decent severance packages unlike Sprint. TMobile dismantled the entire MetroPCS network (which was nearly identical to industry leading Verizon). MetroPCS only value was their spectrum (frequencies their network had licensed).
Now Sprint is taking over T-Mobile. This will be interesting. Most likely all the engineering and technical staff will be let go once Sprint gains control and integrates the T-Mobile network. All the money T-Mobile invested in their network will be scrapped as the only value they have is their Spectrum.
Very unfortunate, but I’m thankful for my education from my GI Bill that got me hired into GM. So glad to be out of communications for such a heavily underpaid and constantly shrinking industry.
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