Earlier this month, it was revealed that T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless had shown their interest in acquiring US Cellular. Just a few weeks later and T-Mobile seems to have won the hearts of US Cellular’s execs. According to T-Mobile’s announcement today, T-Mobile will be acquiring substantially all of US Cellular’s wireless operations, including its wireless customers, stores, and specified spectrum assets. ... [read full article]
FTC just letting all the US cell providers merge into two companies.
Three. US cellular has been losing customers for years now and would have eventually went bankrupt. So this might be a better outcome than that because those people would have had to find another carrier anyway and the FCC would have had spectrum to auction.