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FCC Formally Approves the T-Mobile-Sprint Merger

posted by martyb on Wednesday November 06 2019, @12:38AM   
from the hot-pink-plus-yellow-equals-??? dept.

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for chromas.

FCC formally approves the T-Mobile-Sprint merger

Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) formally approved the T-Mobile-Sprint merger. The decision comes after a drawn-out, and at times contentious, review of T-Mobile's $26.5 billion bid to merge with Sprint.

The FCC believes the deal will close the digital divide and advance 5G in the US. T-Mobile and Sprint have committed to deploying 5G service to cover 97 percent of Americans within three years. They've also pledged to provide 90 percent of Americans with access to mobile service with speeds of at least 100 Mbps within six years. The FCC's approval is conditional on those promises, and the parties could be fined over $2 billion if they don't meet those goals.

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• Re:FCC believes (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday November 06 2019, @08:06AM

  by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday November 06 2019, @08:06AM (#916745) Homepage

  Location with 4G was already possible to within 5-10m. I used to work for a company called Cambridge Positioning Systems, back in the 90s when it was only 3G, and they'd mastered that already. That was in the days before GPS on every phone (as mandated by the FCC, for tha chiiiildrun), so did actually make sense.

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