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    Sprint T-Mobile merger thread

    https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile...for-consumers/

    My opinion is this is going to raise costs for everyone. They are narrowing the competition. After the merger only T-Mobile, Verizon, and ATT will remain. They can collude together to give us a shittier product for more money. If they all are similar, we as consumers won’t really have any options.
    It's hilarious that we as a society think everyone can be a dr, a lawyer, an engineer. Some people are just fucking stupid. Why can't we just accept that?

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    there's a million mvno's on those networks so unless they limit access to the resellers, prices are going to be stable. Where we will see cost improvements is with in home broadband. You won't need the cable company to get 500mb speeds so those costs will go down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jsearles22 View Post
    https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile...for-consumers/

    My opinion is this is going to raise costs for everyone. They are narrowing the competition. After the merger only T-Mobile, Verizon, and ATT will remain. They can collude together to give us a shittier product for more money. If they all are similar, we as consumers won’t really have any options.
    I think T-Mobile has a 3 year or 5 year price lock as part of the deal.

    Have to change thinking, because cell is about to become a legit home internet competitor, which shakes everything up.

    They have tried to keep prices up by adding all these “freebies” but prices will trend flat as they have tons of extra bandwidth.

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    Im not an expert on this, but here is my thinking- I call them now the "Big 3" and I figured they are watch and mirror each other and then prices and services would become more competitive and lean in favor of the customers. My only concern is that Ive read that T-Mobile and Sprint customer service are foreign based. If the Big 3 can just simplify and smooth things out, I would figure it would have a positive outcome.

    Another note for me- I have Sprint and their rural Nevada coverage is mid-level to not so good. I was hoping the rural Nevada coverage would get better now with T-Mobile.

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    Customer service for both is beyond garbage.

    T-Mobile treats the customer like shit and has no respect for them.

    Sprint has outsourced it all to the Philippines and nobody knows what the fuck they're doing.

    A merger can only make this worse.

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    Why are you calling customer service for a cell phone carrier anyways? I have had Mint mobile for the past 2 years and have had to interact with their CS 1 time.

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