New T-Mobile, Not Cable, Will Be the Disrupter Wireless Industry Needs, CEO Legere Says
With the lines between traditional wireless carriers and cable ISPs blurring, it will take the combined spectrum of T-Mobile and Sprint to force the rest of the wireless industry, including cable, to stay competitive to New T-Mobile's value, customer service…
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and network quality, CEO John Legere blogged Thursday. "The U.S. has long needed a third scaled competitor to challenge AT&T and Verizon [and] no one thinks that should be Big Cable -- except maybe Big Cable!" he said, saying New T-Mobile would have the finances and scale "to be that disruptive rival that the U.S. market so badly needs." He said rival wireless and cable competitors now bring higher pricing, spotty coverage "tepid 5G plans and an expanding Digital Divide with bad bundled services galore." T-Mobile/Sprint is seen by some as facing tough head winds to regulatory approval (see 1904170027).