Sprint CEO Dan Hesse working with state regulators to block AT&T’s T-Mobile acquisition

its going to happen, so let it be.. it will be awesome… there is no way this will fail!! especially with big companies like Microsoft and Facebook backing up the deal…

There is no way Sprint can stop this and from a company with financial issues you would think they would spend there money better. Oh wait they have financial issues

A lot of these people commenting wasn’t around when AT&T had a monopoly on the telephone market (land line) and it took the United States government to break the monopoly, AT&T rip off the American public, and this is no different than what they did in the 80′s, this time its the cell phone industry. It’s a old saying, “If you don’t remember your history, you are bound to repeat it” If this merger goes thru, I feel sorry for all of us!

I’m very glad he’s verbally attacking this merger with all his energy. Why is it that here in the states, everyone is so willing to accept things that are clearly bad for everyone? If you don’t think this is true, take a look at a new editorial about US broadband versus other developed nations. Pay attention to why UK prices dropped drastically and their speeds improved. Then tell me why fewer cellular companies are better for everyone.

COMPETITION IS ALWAYS THE GREATER GOOD.

Hesse should focus on getting his lazy eye fixed instead of cozying up to government scum.  The market will decide if the AT&T / T-mobile is a good idea.  I can decide for myself, Lazy Eye Lopez.  If the merger will be so horrible and customers hurt wouldn’t than mean they will be flocking in droves to Sprint?  Well Dan?

P.S. Danny: your Wimax blows!!!

Go Sprint. I am behind you all the way.

Dan Hesse is right, with the purchase of Nextel by Sprint it consolidated the market, & ruined the competition between Verizon and another player. With the purchase of T-mobile by AT&T. Sprint will no longer have a national competitor. Who will they compete with Metro PCS ? Cricket. These are both considered regional carriers. They offer roaming agreements with both of these CDMA carriers. 

T-mobile was the last carrier to enter into 3G in the USA & is once again dragging its feet with 4G. Yes HSDPA can be boosted up to 21 Mbps but Wimax & LTE boost speeds well over 100 Mbps. T-mobile has horrible rural reception, hence the reason why they were the first company to include WiFi browsing or off network connections & was the first company to include WiFi calling Off network. Verizon prediction is that they will have complete National coverage of 4G by 2013. I bet you T-mobile would start to implement a 4G network if left alone around the same time period. With out a company such as T-mobile where is the innovation for the rest of the carriers. Tiered data for all what you used to get as 5 Gb per month for $29.99 is now 2 Gb per month for $29.99. But you guys all are ok with that. I thought we were against net neutrality. 

Dan Hesse is a crying bitch. Sprint now claims it would be marginalized to the point of irrelevance by the merger, but listen to what Dan Hesse said in the 1st quarter of 2011. 
Sprint added 1.1 million net new subs in the first quarter of 2011 – its “best performance in five years.”  ■According to Sprint, this performance made the Sprint brand “the fastest growing national post-paid wireless brand in the country as measured by net subscriber growth.”    ■According to Sprint, this performance made the Sprint brand “the fastest growing national post-paid wireless brand in the country as measured by net subscriber growth.”    ■Sprint also touted its “innovative device line up,” which includes “the largest 4G portfolio of any wireless carrier in the United States.”

Sprint’s Spectrum Position:

Likewise, while Sprint now claims that its spectrum holdings will be dwarfed by those of AT&T and that, post-merger, it “will be unable to meet its capacity needs.”  The fact is that Sprint and its affiliate, Clearwire, have more spectrum than AT&T and T-Mobile combined.  ■Indeed, Sprint has boasted that the Sprint/Clearwire spectrum position is “the largest wireless spectrum portfolio of any company in the country,” and it told the Financial Times last year, “[w]e have the spectrum resources where we could add LTE if we choose to do that, on top of the WiMAX network. …  The beauty of having a lot of spectrum is we have a lot of flexibility.”   

Sprint’s sudden about-face on spectrum reflects Sprint’s failure to take Clearwire’s spectrum into account. But given that Sprint holds a majority interest in Clearwire and uses Clearwire’s spectrum to provide 4G service, its attempt to disassociate itself from that spectrum is neither convincing nor likely to pass regulatory muster.  

In its FCC filing, Sprint tries to exclude Metro PCS, Leap and others from the FCC’s competitive analysis by claiming that prepaid services do not compete with postpaid services.  ■But in April 2010, Sprint told Wall Street that “prepaid as a whole is beginning to cannibalize postpaid,” and the following month the President of Sprint’s prepaid segment acknowledged that the no-contract market, now almost 60 million customers strong, has moved well beyond “the lower income segments.” And in September 2010, Sprint’s then-CFO identified MetroPCS and Leap, along with traditional post-paid carriers, to support his statement that there is “a lot of retail competition out there . . . .” Unfortunately for merger opponents like Sprint, facts matter.

Too little regulation in the US wireless mobile industry is what driving these high a$$ prices. Overseas mobile industries are regulated. They are able to get FREE high end phones with contract renewals and reasonable data plans. Here we have to pay $200-300 dollars every time we go to renew our contracts. AT&T and Verizon has the highest plans.  

Mr. Hesse should STAND UP AGAINST THIS CORRUPTED MERGER anything At&t or Verizion CAN NEVER BE TRUSTED all they care about is there bottomline. Why can’t everyone be responsible for there own network that’s exactly what it should be not all this buying out one another just to have that companies spectrum what a bunch of sisies tmobile is. They ran that company into the ground and they get rewarded for selling…F…that I openly applaude Mr. Hesse and the overall GUTS IT TAKES TO STAND UP AND REMAIN STRONG…Sprint will always be my carrier regardless why because they will continue to bring nothing but the best to android like they have been doing…….MR HESSE MAKES ALL THESE OTHER CEO’S LOOK LAME……

what a sore loser……take your ball and go home

Sprint is in last place. They’ve been there a long time. It reminds me of Nintendo. They didn’t stand a chance against Sony or Microsoft… until they came up with something called the Wii, and proceeded to Dominate the industry for years.