By: Ja’Nae Savoy

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T-Mobile\Sprint
Merge
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T-Mobile Background

THE T-MOBILE US, INC T-MOBILE STARTED ITS SERVICE T-MOBILE IS CURRENTLY MERGED
HEADQUARTERS IS LOCATED IN IN 2001 AFTER THE PURCHASE OF WITH METRO PCS AND GOSMART
BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON AND VOICESTREAM WIRELESS PCS. IT MOBILE.
HAS A TOTAL OF 52,000 IS OWNED BY A GERMAN
EMPLOYEES. $43.3 BILLION TELECOMMUNICATIONS
DOLLARS IS BOUGHT IN COMPANY CALLED DEUTSCHE
ANNUALLY. TELEKOM.
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Sprint Background

Sprint started its service in 1982 after the

merge of South Pacific Communications
and General Telephone and Electric
The Sprint Corporation headquarters is Corporation. In 2005 Sprint merged with
located in Overland Park, Kansas and has Nextel but in 2013 the Sprint Nextel
a total of 30,000 employees. $33 billion Corporation was bought out by SoftBank
dollars is bought in annually. Corporation, a Japanese
telecommunications company. Sprint also
has Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile
prepaid plans under their wing.
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Pros

Pros Better 5G Network More jobs

Service Speed
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Better Service

 T-Mobile and Sprint have both promised that the merge of the two
companies would provide better coverage and performance, which
creates a broader network. This would promote competition
between the other two main phone companies Verizon and AT&T.
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Cons

HIGHER PRICES THE FUTURE OF MERGE MIGHT NOT

SMALLER CARRIERS HAPPEN