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20:09 • 2 years ago

Stock market: A huge merger goes a long way to revive stocks

whatDespite the extreme uncertainty caused by the Japanese quake and Libya unrest, the Dow Jones Industrial jumped above 12,000 for the first time in nearly two weeks.
why The AT&T/T-Mobile merger, silly! In fact, that whole mess seems to have pushed up the entire market for everyone except for Sprint, which fell far today. source

21:30 • 2 years ago

AT&T’s T-Mobile buyout: Infrastructure, antitrust concerns at play

Tags: antitrust AT&T infrastructure mergers mobile phones sprint T-Mobile tmobile verizon wireless spectrum 54 • Permalink

35 million subscribers on T-Mobile’s current wireless setup

100M number of subscribers Verizon has, buoyed by a large infrastructure that nobody can touch
95M number of subscribers AT&T has — if the merger goes through, they’ll top Verizon
40M number of subscribers Sprint has; they were also having merger talks with T-Mobile source

» It’s all about infrastructure: AT&T is trying hard to play catch-up with Verizon, which not only has more customers and bandwidth, but also now has the iPhone. The bummer for T-Mobile users is that AT&T’s monthly rates are far higher than T-Mobile’s, which as you might guess has people worried. While T-Mobile has tried to get ahead of talk like this, the concerns are enough that many analysts are warning that the deal won’t go through.

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