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Re:Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition... by CodeWriter23 on Thursday May 16, 2024 @01:56PM (#40381267)
Sprint was cooked for one specific reason: parent company QWEST refused to do the prism-split of fiber cables into secret NSA colocation rooms like AT&T did.
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Re:Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition... by Aloha on Thursday May 16, 2024 @03:08PM (#40381955)
Qwest never owned Sprint.
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Re:Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition... by CodeWriter23 on Thursday May 16, 2024 @11:44PM (#40386187)
Ok young'n

In March 1998 Qwest announced it would acquire long-distance carrier LCI International Inc. for $4.4 billion. The deal created the fourth-largest long-distance carrier in the United States behind AT&T, MCI Worldcom, and Sprint Corp. The combined companies had about 5,800 employees and revenue of $2.3 billion. The acquisition gave Qwest 2 million long-distance customers and a well-established sales force.

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Re:Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition... by Aloha on Friday May 17, 2024 @07:39AM (#40388795)
Which has what to do with Sprint?
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Re:Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition... by CodeWriter23 on Friday May 17, 2024 @04:20PM (#40393823)
> and Sprint Corp

Oh nothing. Move along, nothing to see here.

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Re:Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition... by tomohawk on Thursday May 16, 2024 @02:53PM (#40381824)
Hmmm - interesting!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

EDIT: more info here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/qwest-ceo-nsa-punished...

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