I think this will be a good thing for users of either service for better connectivity.

Google's Project Fi has had success using both carriers for it's service.Only Google's own phones Nexus 5X and newer can be used on Fi.Google's new Pixel phones will debute on Oct 4th

T-Mobile and Sprint are in active talks about a merger

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God help us. These mergers only result in higher rates and poorer service.

Yes indeed Sprint already teamed up with Boost. Never A T mobil fan had them about 10 years ago short lived got out of them

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Any benefit in coverage area would be a long term proposition. T Mobile and Sprint use incompatible technology. Sprint CDMA phones will not work on T Mo GSM towers and vice versa.

Sprint's coverage is dismal outside major cities and along Interstates. T Mobile is much better now than Sprint as far as coverage area, reliability, and data throughput.

IF the merger goes through, and I think it's fairly unlikely, the combined company would most likely phase out CDMA over a period of years and replace it with GSM technology or probably more likely phase out both and go LTE only with no 3g/2g whatsoever.

I'm uncertain as to whether the deal would benefit T Mobile's bottom line. Sprint is very nearly bankrupt as it is, and would bring very little value to the deal other than some additional frequency bandwidth which T Mobile could use to improve their already superior service. T Mobile is profitable, but not at the same level with AT&T or Verizon.

I spent time on Sprint. The native coverage is tiny. They roam onto Verizon and others which have much better coverage area, but you generally get talk and text only in roaming areas - no data.

AT&T and Verizon have much better coverage areas, but T Mobile is not that far behind and is expanding quickly.

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More monopoly, Isn't this why the busted up the Bell system many years ago?

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SWCA1967 SWHF244

That was what the government told us - are we any better off?

I look at these cable companies and wonder where that monopoly is going.

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Thank goodness for tracfones.

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Ma bell had us over a barrel. My parents moved 17 miles away and it was a long distance call to my grandparents house.

Thats interesting. A few years ago a T-Mobile and AT&T merger was denied by the DOJ. The thing about that one is their networks were compatible, actually sharing the same network in some areas. The T-Mobile and Sprint networks are NOT compatible. It will be very expensive to merge them.

In this area putting those two together might get you 2 bars of signal strength

A Google Project Fi phone will auto switch between Sprint, TMobile, and US Cellular.

Up until yesterday only Google's own Pixel and Nexus phones could be used on Project Fi.Motorola's Moto X4,announced yesterday, is Project Fi's first Android One smartphone

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