T-Mobile and Sprint Merge Nears Approval

T-Mobile and Sprint resolved to be pot committed in their merge. And this deal has been in the process for years. Aside from that, the transaction would appear as a combined company with an enterprise value of $160 billion, if completed.

However, it will require both companies to come up with an agreement with the Department of Justice regarding the creation of a new fourth wireless competitor. And according to some reports, the deal might be available as early as Wednesday. Then, the Department of Justice will sue to block the agreement if they won’t reach an agreement for within this week. According to The New York Post, the agreement was imminent.

Meanwhile, the Dish Network will be the newest wireless competitor. Also, it is one of the largest U.S. providers of video. Dish has been spending billions on its airwaves, which they’ve been storing for years, because, for decades, it wanted to be a wireless provider.

But for T-Mobile, Charlie Ergen, Dish CEO and co-founder, may arguably the most critical person the company will run up against in the matter.

Dish in the Market

Recently, some telecommunications analysts such as Craig Moffet and Jonathan Chaplin are asking if a merger that strengthens Dish as a disruptive fourth wireless player is valuable for T-Mobile.

Aside from that, Dish might land in being the more frightening competitor compared with Sprint. And this will result in massive capital constraints and quickly feeling customers without a deal with T-Mobile.

The German telecommunications firm Deutsche Telekom will authorize the combined T-Mobile and Sprint. And some people familiar with the matter said that the plan of Ergen became a concern for Deutsche. And that is the main reason for the firm spending the past few weeks into arguing about the limitations on Dish’s capacity to sell a percentage of its wireless business to a strategic investor — for example, Amazon, Google and cable operator like Comcast and Charter.