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T-Mobile and Sprint Ask For Merger Approval (axios.com)
According to documents filed Monday, T-Mobile and Sprint have formally asked the FCC to approve their proposed merger. Axios reports: In their filing, the companies said that the deal would "generate substantial public interest benefits for the customers of T-Mobile and Sprint and for U.S. wireless customers as a whole, and do not give rise to any competitive harms." "The merger unlocks the door to new broadband choices and capabilities for consumers across the country while accelerating the arrival of transformative 5G services that will produce innovation, jobs, and economic growth for our country," the companies said. Basically, the two companies have to prove to the FCC that the deal benefits consumers, and avoid antitrust concerns currently being investigated by the Department of Justice.
Russia kept Trump afloat during the great recession with money laundering and cash injections, asking for high treason in return.
From surrendering to North Korea, China, and Russia, to betraying our closest allies in NATO and betraying our nation's ideals Trump has delivered for his Russian masters.
Treason, bribery, and money laundering are illegal. It's time to lock him up!
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"How young Donald Trump was slapped and punched until he made his bed"
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/donald-trump-fellow-cadet-article-1.3401110
My last conversation with Donald Trump was at the New York Military Academy, where we were both cadets. It was 1964, the year he graduated. We were walking together near the baseball field where, he reminded me, he'd played exceptionally well. He demanded that I tell him the story of one of his greatest games.
"The bases were loaded," I told him. "We were losing by three. You hit the ball just over the third baseman's head. Neither the third baseman nor the left fielder could get to the ball in time. All four of our runs came in; we won the game."
"No," he said. "That's not the way it happened. I want you to remember this: I hit the ball out of the ballpark! Remember that. I hit it out of the ballpark!"
Ballpark? I thought. We were talking about a high school practice field. There was no park to hit a ball out of. And anyway, his hit was a blooper the fielders misplayed.
But I wasn't going to argue with Donald. What was the harm in a little embellishment, if it helped him survive New York Military Academy?
NYMA, the private boarding school where Trump's parents sent him and where mine sent me, could be a brutal place where grown men who were veterans of the real military ruled with threats and force.
Trump's first year, under the command of Major Theodore Dobias, was hellish. Dobias slapped and punched him until he learned to make his bed and polish his shoes — things that Donald, an aggressive little wiseguy, had at first refused to do.
At some point Dobias assumed that he had broken Trump and eased up. More probably, Trump had figured out Dobias' weak points and had begun to exploit them. He flattered the major and became one of his "winners" who was favored with privileges and praised.
As the Academy's unofficial PR man, Dobias even contributed to the Trump myth, eventually telling Rolling Stone that pro scouts vied to sign Trump. As with many things Dobias asserted about Trump, this story may or may not be true.
Besides sports, most of Donald's years at the Academy were unremarkable. In his junior year, he was a supply sergeant in charge of the World War II M1s rifles we all lugged around at parade. But even in this laid-back position he was brash and assertive.
A member of the school band recallsTrump throwing shoes at him and yelling at him to shut up when this young man stood too close to the barracks trumpeting Reveille. Rumor had it that he got away with stuff like this because his father donated large sums to the school.
In his senior year, Donald was promoted to captain of A Company. Unlike other cadet captains who took an interest in the lives of the adolescents in their charge, Trump commanded at a remove. Aside from a determination that cadets in his care would always polish their brass belt buckles and keep the spit-shine on their boots, come evening he'd retreat to his room.
My friend Peter Ticktin, who was an A Company platoon sergeant, emailed me recently to say he saw Trump as someone who kept his thoughts to himself and delegated his responsibilities. "DT put his trust in me," Ticktin wrote . "(Although trust) may be too strong (a word), as I was not a confidant as to his personal thoughts. No one was. He was much to himself. A good guy, but no one's real buddy."
Trump couldn't remain aloof after one of his minions allegedly hazed a younger cadet. Ignoring the unwritten barracks rule that no report to the adult authorities be made, this cadet finked to his parents, who demanded a meeting with the superintendent. It resulted in Donald's removal as captain.
Any other cadet caught in such a scandal would have been busted to a lower rank and exiled to a different barracks. But Donald was transferred, with no loss of rank, to what was probably intended as a desk job. (He called it a promotion.)
While Donald had not succeeded as a manager of young men
... "It's good for children."
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
There is just something that sounds REALLY weird about T-Mobile and Sprint joining forces. Sprint wants that GSM network, huh.
...the merger being blocked (or at least impeded) by AT&T
Maybe not in a manner easily traced back to AT&T, but isn't that what friends are for?
Unless they pay me 70 million dollars in the span of 15 seconds with a single transaction in US currency and it fills my bank account.
Otherwise, they will have to pay monthly payments of 10 million for 15 years in the same manner as previously mentioned.
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you mean the children of the politicians they bribed to get this approved I can't argue.
Seriously, we need to get people to stop voting for any politician who accepts money from corporations and/or PACs. It should be a litmus test. Why the hell would you vote for somebody who admits to bribes?
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We are getting trumped.
Every state must have at least 3 independent suppliers. Barring that, the top providers are barred from entering the market.
You can merge all you want so long as customers have a reasonable option to use a competitor
They get a horrible brand name, horrible network, terrible spectrum on a different frequency with less propagation and less building penetration that Sprint's lease of will expire in 10 years or so. I guess as long as they dissolve sprint completely and just take their subscribers it might not be horrible.
Ajit Pai, being a good Verizon employee, would never let this go through.... unless they pay him more. Then anythings possible with that $h!7 tard.
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Yea, I won't be on T Mobile any longer.
Highlander was a cautionary tale about the corporate ecosystem.
IIRC there were talks of a Sprint acquiring T-Mobile USA back in 2015 and it died off due to regulatory concerns, so what's different now? Oh right, people that are far easier to bribe are now in office.
They had also tried to sell off T-Mobile USA to AT&T back in 2011, but the DOJ blocked that and T-Mobile netted some very nice contract termination bonuses (both money and spectrum) from AT&T in the process.
Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile's Germany based parent company) has been crying that T-Mobile USA is bleeding money and trying to off-load it on someone else since the first failed sale attempt back in 2011. But maybe it's all just a smoke screen to try and get regulators to back off from them so they can make a fast buck.
You can merge all you want so long as customers have a reasonable option to use a competitor
A reasonable perspective though remember that oligopolies are a thing and can be just as bad as a monopoly. It's not clear that going from 4 major wireless providers to 3 provides any benefit to consumers but it's pretty obvious how it might hurt them.
In some cases a monopoly is actually the most economically efficient. Having multiple companies run power lines to your house is actually more expensive than having a single well regulated monopoly for example. Same with water lines and other utilities. Typically these are natural monopolies. But these sorts of situations are exceptions and don't seem applicable for wireless services if they are being properly regulated.