Sprint, T-Mobile Could Announce a Merger By Month's End (androidpolice.com)

Last month, it was reported that T-Mobile is close to agreeing tentative terms on a deal to merge with Sprint. Now, it appears that negotiations between the two companies are almost complete. Android Police reports: The report claims that Sprint and T-Mobile are putting the finishing touches on the merger, which will likely be announced at the quarterly earnings report at the end of this month. Some of the current discussion topics include Sprint's valuation (estimated to be around $29 billion), the location of the combined company's headquarters, and appointments to the executive management team. The merge is not expected to include a breakup/termination fee, meaning if one company backed out of the deal, there would be no financial penalty. This would align both companies to lobby government regulators for approval without any conflicts of interest. After AT&T called off its buyout of T-Mobile in 2011 due to government opposition, the company paid a $4 billion breakup fee to T-Mobile, which helped strengthen T-Mobile as a competitor. The report notes that while T-Mobile and Sprint's quarterly earnings reports have not been set, T-Mobile's was on October 24 last year, and Sprint's was the next day.

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Re:Worked great for Nextel-Sprint..oh wait

[dgatwood]

With frequency bands from 2.3 to 2.4 GHz. and 2.496 to 2.69 GHz, respectively, LTE bands 40 and 41 are essentially on either side of the ISM band, which is from 2.4 to 2.5 GHz.

The poor coverage has nothing to do with microwave ovens and everything to do with higher frequencies being more prone to multipath interference. That's the highest-frequency band that Sprint uses for LTE.