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atuarre

Here come the drums

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join:2004-02-14

EC/SETX SWLA 18 recommendations atuarre Premium Member RE No. Softbank can't manage Sprint and now they want to try to absorb two other companies? No.



The bills will go up but as a previous poster stated you can pretty much forget about any improvements. crazymonkey1

join:2016-04-09 17 recommendations crazymonkey1 Member Can you imagine? America's worst major wireless company merging with America's worst major cable company.



Sounds like a match made in customer service hell. Ugh. ISurfTooMuch

join:2007-04-23

Tuscaloosa, AL 10 recommendations ISurfTooMuch Member SMH So Son wants to spend money on Charter, but he doesn't want to spend money to make Sprint competitive? These CEO types must be playing three-dimensional chess, because I sure as hell don't understand their strategy.



Sprint is sitting on tons of spectrum, just waiting to be built out. What the hell is Son waiting for? If T-Mobile could turn itself around, Spring sure as hell can, although it needs a complete management overhaul first. shanghaista

join:2014-08-03

Canton, MA 5 recommendations shanghaista Member Big Boat This is just a glorified pissing contest about who's in charge:



Rutledge didn't acquire TWC just to get bought out. He wants to be the big dog in charge of a conglomerate that can surpass Comcast.



Similarly, Son isn't willing to sell either. He just wants to double down, potentially diversify and increase his holdings.

This puzzles me; he's not willing to admit his losses and sell Sprint, Softbank isn't willing to pour money into Sprint to ramp up their network like TMUS did in the past 5 years, yet they're willing to pay 12-figures for Charter?

The spectrum assets Sprint holds (see what I did there?) is definitely undervalued right now because of the rest of the company is struggling, but build it out. Don't be slashing CapEx estimates and forecasts...



I can't say I blame either of them; Rutledge has turned around Charter since their bankruptcy and Son has previous success with Japanese wireless. Interesting to see moving forward. existenz

join:2014-02-12 5 recommendations existenz Member If Softbank will invest in them, then maybe Softbank seems to buy companies only to eventually sell again, not truly investing to fullest potential. If they truly invest in Charter and Sprint, then maybe. But doesn't seem likely they'll get TMO even in Trump era (possible though).



Given Sprint has more spectrum than any carrier and 2500 is great for fixed wireless, this is an opportunity for Charter to expand into many new markets with fixed wireless (using outdoor MIMO antennas) with OTT TV. But Softbank needs to understand there needs to be enough backhaul to every site for this to work, needs to be a primary focus. shmerl

join:2013-10-21 5 recommendations shmerl Member No, this should be forbidden. Enough of this merger craziness. They want to have a landline ISP? Let them build a new one. Nucleartx

join:2016-09-08

Belton, TX 3 recommendations Nucleartx Member Tom's gonna say no Free helicopter ride everyday above the peasants, why give that up. Son isn't gonna give Tom $98 million so he'll pass. majortom1029

join:2006-10-19

Medford, NY 3 recommendations majortom1029 Member hmm I can see comcast,charter, and altice all coming together and purchasing sprint.

Anon2b20f

@2600:8800.x 3 recommendations Anon2b20f Anon Sprint's network isnt horrible Son has continued investment in the network. Just not as much as people here want.

Thing is if Son's goal has been some merger or buyout why invest now? Wait until the merger happens then go from there. A merger with TMobile would be different than one with Charter.

Dump in a ton of money now just to find out it was wrong buildout for the merger that happened. techguru308

join:2016-05-19

Cincinnati, OH 2 recommendations techguru308 Member Sounds like Soft Bank is not liking the offers they got Sounds like Soft Bank is not liking the offers they got to buy their bankrupt sinking wireless Titanic called Sprint. So now they are focusing to buy and merger with another US company instead of selling at a loss for pennies on the dollar. Bob61571

join:2008-08-08

Washington, IL 2 recommendations Bob61571 Member And People in Hell Want Ice Water.....



Masayoshi Son wants to build a communications giant, but I can't see it all falling into place for him. AT&T has the phone/cable/internet structure that Son wants to imitate, but AT&T has seemed to stumble lately.