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ChiTownDenny

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5. Agreed that the merger will drive up costs. However,

Reply to ancianita (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 11, 2020, 02:25 PM

Feb 2020

the lack of viability of Sprint in a 5G world would result in its purchase or demise, anyway, which would also drive up costs. Gov't, through its tax code, can spur competition and/or drive down costs to consumers.

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The whole new company will be called T-Mobile. ancianita Feb 2020 #2

Agreed that the merger will drive up costs. However, ChiTownDenny Feb 2020 #5

It only revs up monopolistic control that allows Barr to get the US a bit ahead of China using 5G ancianita Feb 2020 #6

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