The solution is to break up the other three, not to sell this one to big three…
These arguments only make sense to people who make money off this grift tbh
Why, of course they are!
Same as Sprint! And then when the deal is complete and all the promises made and contracts signed, they will start firing the highest paid/longest tenured employees at T-Mobile for cost savings while jacking up prices with new plans with the same features every 6 to 8 months and promotional phone pricing only for those new plans.
I should know. I was a store manager for 5 years. Before and after sprint merger.
T-Mobile was always a shit company with a bombastically marketed CEO that was all Packing Cracking et al. Reduce and replace is a scam. They lie and say they don’t have the device if you don’t buy accessories in store.
Wanna know how to get the phone?
Start picking out your accessories, have them grab your phone from the back, once they start the phone sale process, say you have changed your mind on your accessories. If they then say you can’t buy it, call the corporate 611 number and ask for a bill credit for deceptive practices and report the store. Then go and report to the FCC for bill stuffing.
Never use a third party store. They are even griftier.
That’s not why they’re selling.
Congress let the FCC spectrum auction/allocation authority expire in 2023. So the FCC is unable to allocate new spectrum licenses to carriers. Even the spectrum that was already auctioned has been in limbo.
That makes transfer/sale of existing licenses the only path to acquisition, which significantly raises the prospective value of those assets.
T-Mobile doesn’t want their customers or their infrastructure. They want the spectrum. And because Congress is sitting on their hands, US Cellular is able to demand a higher premium now than they likely ever would again.
to be fair, it’s t-mobile so it’s probably doomed with the t-mobile acquisition too
I honestly have had a better experience overall with T-Mobile than with Verizon or AT&T.
That said, having three huge telecoms dominating the wireless communications industry is not a good thing.
Hell, two of those dinosaurs are direct descendents of the same company that monopolized the US telecom industry for decades.
Neat 📸
But seriously, US Cellular, why in the ever loving fuck should we, the public, or any court, give even the tiniest of shits? Maybe that’s just capitalism capitalism-ing. Maybe this is by design. Maybe this is good and proper. Maybe your business wasn’t good enough to survive.
We should be really invested in helping US Cellular. We just shouldn’t help them in the way they want. We should help them by breaking up the mega corps that are their competitors. And this time we shouldn’t allow them to all merge back into mega corps.
