Talks of Sprint and T-Mobile Merger In The Air

Recently, Sprint's CEO, Dan Hesse sat down with the Financial Times and re-confirmed the company's option to pursue LTE if and when the time is right. Sprint and Clearwire are said to be in the enviable position of having access ample 4G spectrum that is able to support LTE on the top of the current WiMAX network. The abundance in the 4G spectrum the company has and the possibility of deploying LTE has analysts reconsidering the potential for a merger between Sprint and T-Mobile. Rumors of a merger between Sprint and T-Mobile are floating the air and they first emerged in 2008 but the talks reportedly stalled between the two companies since they used two very different and incompatible wireless technologies. If Sprint and T-Mobile both adopt LTE technology, a merger is more likely as Sprint would receive a boost from T-Mobile's 33 million subscribers and T-Mobile would gain access to the 4G spectrum which will help them as well. During his talk with Financial Times, Hesse did acknowledge that there was logic to the merger but failed to comment on the possibility that the two wireless providers were in the middle of discussions.

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