I’m sure most of our readers would disagree with this idea, but Dan Hesse seems to think that a merger between Sprint and T-Mobile is still a good idea. He’s gone on record with Financial Times by saying the company is still considering a merger with T-Mobile “down the line”. You may remember last year that Sprint and T-Mobile were in talks of a merger, but T-Mobile’s parent company, Deutsche Telekom, feels that T-Mobile is doing fine on their own.
Combining the two companies would put them in a spot to jump into 2nd place, right between Verizon and At&t. We all know how badly merging two incompatible networks can go (i.e. Sprint and Nextel), so its surprising that Sprint is considering making this move again. This move is most likely focused on 4G and building a large enough network to compete with Verizon and At&t. Remember, Sprint is the only major US carrier going with WiMAX, while everyone else is going LTE. A merger might give them the best of both 4G worlds, but integrating their 3G (HSDPA and EVDO) and 2G (Edge and CDMA 1xRTT) would be a nightmare.
We have quite a few Sprint users on our site and a few T-Mobile ones. How would you guys feel if there was a merger in the future? If it happened, would you stick it out, or would you jump to another carrier?
Source: Phandroid (Thanks for the tip boredandtattooed)