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Comment by festizio | Hacker News Reader

I am more sad reading that T-Mobile and Sprint are potentially merging.

Why? I'd understand not wanting AT&T or Verizon to buy either of them, but I don't see how a T-Mobile & Sprint merger would make things much worse. Seems like that would make them a more viable 3rd alternative to the big two, which is something I'd really appreciate. I just went back to Verizon because the service I was getting from T-Mobile just wasn't good enough.

> > I am more sad reading that T-Mobile and Sprint are potentially merging.

> Why?

I am not festizio, but the news makes me sad because I find T-Mobile's customer service and stick-it-to-the-big-carriers attitude both delightful, and my memories of dealing with Sprint (only ever landline, so I have no idea of the mobile quality) are terrible. On the other hand, your point:

> Seems like that would make them a more viable 3rd alternative to the big two, which is something I'd really appreciate.

seems like a good argument for why it could at least be a mixed blessing.

I can't think of a time where customer experience, user experience or overall quality of a company improves after a large merger like this. Less choices for the consumer typically translate to more power for the companies.

They're already viable as they will be. As far as i can tell the only reason verizon is doing better is because they use CDMA rather than GSM.

At&t sucks, though. It's not good that the best two providers (in terms of how they treat their customers) are merging

I have had all of the major carriers. T-Mobile has given me the best customer service and features for a cheaper price than the others.

They already license towers from each other. May as well be one company on paper too.

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