Verizon CEO Says They Don't Need Sprint
Verizon CEO Says They Don't Need Sprint
Posted 03/22/2011 at 2:56pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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In the wake of the surprise AT&T deal to buy T-Mobile USA, many have speculated that Verizon Wireless might want to get hitched to Sprint. Big Red has gotten out ahead of the rumors and shot the idea down pretty handily. "We're not interested in Sprint. We don't need them," said Verizon CEO Mead at CTIA today.
Mead said that he believed that the buyout of T-Mobile would most likely be approved as long as the combined company adhered to certain conditions. A combined AT&T/T-Mobile would end up the biggest wirelesses carrier in the US, overtaking Verizon. While they might not like the deal, Big Red can't exactly talk up increased regulation of the wireless industry.
This also leaves Sprint in a strange position. They will be the smallest national carrier by far. Their WiMAX network strategy is also looking like the odd duck in a sea of LTE. We wouldn't be surprised if a Sprint deal happens down the road, but the last thing Verizon wants to do is spook the feds.
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QUINTIX256
March 22, 2011 at 3:59pm
IIRC sprint has a really nice roaming agreement with Verizon, like T-Mobile has with AT&T. Given how Verizon has been in the recent past ("accidental" data charges, attempting to deep-six Vonage, etc...), I wonder what Verizon thinks of their relationship with Sprint.
Even if the FTC and FCC decide that T-Mobile and AT&T should be seperate entities, the two big GSM networks will probably still get a broader roaming agreement and spectrum re-arrangement (e.g. customers will still need to replace their phones), which will be good for me as an AT&T customer. Verizon, on the other hand, could probably revoke their roaming agreement with sprint at any moment.
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