The larger companies have higher profit margins because they can spread the cost of a national network across a larger customer base, allowing them to pocket a larger portion of each customer’s monthly payment. T-Mobile and Sprint are under pressure from investors to match those profit margins, and the only way to do that is to get bigger. There is little realistic prospect that the national mobile phone companies would face new competition. Mobile phone companies already spend large sums to shape federal and state regulation. It is not in the public interest to let T-Mobile and Sprint join forces, adding another Goliath to the ranks of tech companies.

Source: New York Times June 01, 2019 18:30 UTC