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Talk of the town: Merger between T-Mobile and Sprint?

Published: 14 December 2009
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Sprint Nextel's shares rose last week when more rumours of a merger with T-Mobile USA circulated.



T-Mobile and Sprint take up the 3rd and 4th places in the USA wireless market respectively, and both are far behind Verizon and AT&T, each of whom have more than 80 million customers.



A merger would provide an opportunity for Sprint and T-Mobile to generate economies of scale and reduce costs including cutting jobs. There is speculation that the public and political interest in creating jobs given economic circumstances in the USA might undermine support for the merger.