It's trickle up. As in they get it all and we get nothing.

You beat me to the punch on posting this. Deleting...

then the rest of the companies will merge at the end of the year into one big fucking giant money sucking blowhard leech.

I had their prepaid 4G service. Half the time, I couldn't buy time on their non functional website and had to do it by phone. Attempts to resolve the problem by using their forum also was unsuccessful. Forum workers were more interested in marking the question as resolved than actually providing solutions.

The final straw came when the sim card became locked and neither T-Mobile nor the company who sold me the device were interested in providing a new one. When I was on the phone with T-Mobile "tech" support, I had to give them my phone number because the phone that their "tech" support was using kept cutting out. The tried to tell me that their device wouldn't work on my tablet after I had been using it on that tablet for over a year. Every time I called, they attempted to blame my equipment for their failures. $40 a share is way overpriced for this joke of a company.

I now use a company called Red Pocket that uses T-Mobile's network but has a functional website and quick service.

I've been a TMo user for many years without complaint, but when my daughter went off to college she picked up a TMo prepaid account and was miserable with it. I ended up activating a line for her on our family plan and she hasn't had a problem since.

I switched to Metro PCS to get away from effing sprint. Then effing T Mobile bought Metro PCS and now I am looking at being a Sprint customer again?!!!! ARGH.... please no.

Where fair prices and a competitive marketplace are virtually non-existent!

UGH. PLEASE don't approve this, Feds.

Sprint was rated as recently as a month ago as the absolute worst customer service of ANY industry. Not just cell service.

I had their network a couple of years ago with Straight Talk and it sucked. I've had T-Mobile for a couple of years, and have never had a problem.

I never thought anything could drive me to Verizon, but this will do it.

T-Mobile is GSM and Sprint is CDMA.

And both are crap. Until four years ago, I had a company-provided T-Mobile Blackberry that wouldn't work in my house. And my house is in the center of the San Fernando Valley (Los Angeles for those not familiar). You couldn't get any more center of the Valley if you tried, but when the phone called, I had to go outside to answer (and hope).

I don't see them changing to just one format. In the Twin Cities metro area one dominates the west side and the other the east.

And is in the process of converting it over to gsm.

Poorly, it seems to me.

They give you a Sim card and you have access to Tmobiles GSM towers, but treat it like cdma, with your service locked to one phone.

Higher rates...worse service...layoffs...and it will be rubber stamped by "regulators".

Oh so predictable.

This is what the Republicans call competition!

Consumer Reports rated T-Mobile as descent but Sprint very low.

Need to change my carrier anyway.