T-Mobiles market cap is like 3% of Apple's. If there was ever margin to be made Apple could swoop in like it was nothing.
Re:Mergers ruin everything
by ajsnigrutin on Friday February 04, 2022 @05:15PM
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So, when will there be a new frequency auction for apple to get frequencies? How much does it take to get a build permits for each and every one of the new basestations needed from every local municipality (or whatever governing body gives out permits for that)? How long does it take to get permits to dig out and over all the roads and raileways to lay fiber for all those basestations?
Yes, apple has a lot of money, yes apple can buy T-mobile, but for apple to build a tower in bumfuck alabama, that'll take years and years of bureaucracy and pain, and there are a lot of bumfucks around every country.
Anyone can make a new instagram... just write some code in your free time, get (very lucky, and get) some VC to throw some money into your company, and you become a new instagram... then either get forgotten in a few years, or get bought for some huge amount of money. Instagram had just 13(?) employees by the time facebook bought them (or some other very low number, i forgot).
But a telco? No way... virual operator maybe, but there's no real money in that, but just starting to build basestations is impossible, you need millions and millions to even get frequencies, and you're already late for those, and there's basically no realistic way for a new mobile operator to come to an existing market now.