T-Mobile and Sprint are going to have to overcome basic math as well. Of course, Sprint and T-Mobile are doing everything they can to shape the narrative and suggest that the marketplace is much larger. Back in 2011, AT&T tried to buy T-Mobile, and one of the arguments for the deal then was that T-Mobile needed a lifeline. Even if Sprint were to fall into bankruptcy several years from now, it isn’t as if it would disappear. But our antitrust laws were not created simply to help struggling companies; they were constructed, ultimately, to benefit customers.

Source: New York Times April 30, 2018 19:22 UTC