Softbank is hoping for a Sprint/T-Mobile merger

[GSMArena]

SoftBank's CEO Masayoshi Son says that if the possibility of merging Sprint and T-Mobile together takes longer than he hopes, it's still okay. Son wanted to buy T-Mobile back in 2014 around the time the T-Mobile began its aggressive transformation but the FCC warned that it would not allow that to happen for the sake of competition in the US wireless space. The head of the FCC is up for grabs so Son wants to take the opportunity to make a second attempt at the merger. Son's argument for why it should consider the merger is that Sprint could never be a full-bodied fourth carrier...



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