{"id":14,"date":"2008-01-18T12:09:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T16:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2008-01-18T12:09:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T16:09:15","slug":"more-telecom-consolidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"More telecom consolidation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some folks are looking at the problems that Sprint\/Nextel had monetizing their &#8220;merger of equals&#8221; several years ago. \u00a0The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/deals\/2008\/01\/18\/sprint-nextels-44-billion-dropped-call\/\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0have taken a brief look at this and the huge losses over the lifetime of the merger. \u00a0I doubt that AT&amp;T or Verizon will acquire Sprint. \u00a0You may recall that MCI\/Worldcom tried to acquire Sprint and was rebuffed by regulators. \u00a0Possible acquisitions could come from anyone from ISPs to other telcos. \u00a0This could range from Cogent to Level3 or Qwest.\u00a0Personally I had always wondered how they would merge two networks that used different technologies for a win. \u00a0Nextel had higher revenue per subscriber due to their two-way feature, but Sprint hasn&#8217;t had any compelling products in recent years as AT&amp;T(Cingular) launched the iPhone, and others attempt to compete.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some folks are looking at the problems that Sprint\/Nextel had monetizing their &#8220;merger of equals&#8221; several years ago. \u00a0The\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0have taken a brief look at this and the huge losses over the lifetime of the merger. \u00a0I doubt that AT&amp;T or Verizon will acquire Sprint. \u00a0You may recall that MCI\/Worldcom tried to acquire Sprint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puck.nether.net\/~jared\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}