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bass4funk
Personally, I think ALL these carriers suck, I have to find THE perfect carrier in ANY country!
greenlight
The new company will be a monster of network technologies - Sprint has iDEN, CDMA2000 and WiMAX and T-Mobile have EDGE, UMTS and LTE
jeff198527
Japan Inc.- buying out a company near you.
nath
Good on ya SoftBank - you shine!
Raymond Chuang
I think a HUGE hurdle for a Softbank-backed Sprint buyout of T-Mobile USA is that Sprint uses CDMA digital cellular, while T-Mobile uses GSM digital cellular. That incompatibility makes the merger cost much higher than normal.
ka_chan
They may have trouble getting permission since a merger between Sprint and T-Mobile would be anti-competitive. SoftBank should know better.
theResident
I think you know the answer to that question Elbuda.
Elbuda Mexicano
Ok, so when can we Softbank in the USA with the same rates as my WHITE PLAN here in Japan??
theResident
Let him get on with it. One bad network buying another bad network does not make a good network in either country.
SenseNotSoCommon
Why not target developing markets?
nath
wow, Son really is going to town....... He should have done all this when JPY was 20% more expensive.
sighclops
Well they ruined E-Mobile so it will be nothing but bad news for T-Mobile customers...