Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S.
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#2Ah, yes, that's what did it, not the reunification of Ma Bell.
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#3I’d love to see an economist tease apart the contribution of industry consolidation to inflation and wage suppression.
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#4DOE needs to stop approving mergers and acquisitions over $150 mil or so. Every such merger: Facebook/Instagram, Google/Youtube, etc has been a disaster.
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#5I will say, I'm not terribly fond of mergers on principle. However, based on my insight as a former customer and shareholder of the company, Sprint's goose was most definitely cooked to a crisp. If this merger had not happened, I could have seen Sprint file for bankruptcy, with Verizon and AT&T picking the carcass clean.
I think folks forget how dire Sprint's straits were at the time, and this specific merger truly was the least of all evils.
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#6and they acquired Mint, which almost certainly means my $30/mo prepaid plan will disappear soon.
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#7and they acquired Mint, which almost certainly means my $30/mo prepaid plan will disappear soon.
Really sad to see the got Mint.. Cheers for the people that profited, but I feel this is a more serious blow than the sprint takeover.
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#8Really? In 2018, a voice only family plan was more than twice than a voice, text, and data plan I have today. Mind you, it just went down $10/month a few months ago so it isn't like all the price drops happened years ago.
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#9DOE needs to stop approving mergers and acquisitions over $150 mil or so. Every such merger: Facebook/Instagram, Google/Youtube, etc has been a disaster.
They were great investments for soon to be has beens. And helped the acquisition flourish too.
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#10I'm struggling to feel the lack of price competition here in the US. It feels like mobile service has continually improved over time with fairly constant competition from MVNOs serving to experiment with different pricing models, as bandwidth has continued to be deployed.
T-Mobile needed that Sprint merger to remain a viable nationwide competitor to Verizon and AT&T, and now they've done that.