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The Clark Howard Podcast

2.11.20 T-Mobile and Sprint Merger; Businesses profit sharing; Password management tools

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The merger between wireless giants T-Mobile and Sprint has cleared a major hurdle as a federal judge ruled in favor of the deal. Clark explains his take for consumers, including information about the impact on home internet service. Today, we pause to salute companies that value their employees. One great way to do so is profit sharing. Especially in a service businesses, workers are core and key to progress. Delta has paid huge bonuses, having profited from the grounding of the Boeing Max, while Southwest suffered losses from the Max grounding, but still made a profit and gave their employees bonuses equal to about 6 weeks pay. Only 1/3 of companies share their profits. Business doesn't exist without employees. Rewarding workers with a share of what they made happen is KEY to motivating them. The companies that do best take care of their employees first. No matter what industry you’re in, its ultimately about serving the customer. Rewarded employees are more committed. The word ‘password’ has been used as a password. It’s important for security to do better. Firefox and Google Chrome users have access to password managers. More sophisticated password managers generated unique passwords as needed. We creatures of habit tend to use the same passwords, which basic pw managers simply echo. More advanced programs offer more protection, including Dashlane and LastPass. Many more have entered the market. A WIRED review rates 1Password as the best overall manager, which auto generates unique passwords for $36 per year per person, $60 for a family. Bitwarden gets great reviews for free. These tools help place a barrier between you and a hacker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show where it's all about you and that wall of the yours.

0:42.0

I want you to learn ideas so you can save more and spend less.

0:46.0

And don't let anyone ever rip you off.

0:50.0

Our websites are Clark.com and ClarkDeals.com.

0:55.0

You know, one of the most popular things on Clark.com is our continually updated guide to the best cell phone plans for light users, medium users and heavy users of cell phones, writing out for individuals, families, all the rest.

1:11.0

That's because picking a service has always been so confusing for people.

1:17.0

And it's been great in the United States that we've had four competitors for cell phone service, but we're not going to anymore.

1:28.0

Barring any kind of last minute hiccup, we're going to have T-Mobile that's absorbing sprint, AT&T and Verizon.

1:38.0

So we're going from four to three and the experience around the world has been that when you go from four cellular providers in a country to three that the rates move up.

1:49.0

But this deal in my opinion is going to be nothing but good stuff for you as a consumer.

1:58.0

I want to tell you what's happening as a result of this.

2:02.0

So number one, minutes and texts that used to be so important are not really important anymore.

2:10.0

In fact, the ability for a wireless company to provide you with unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, they can do that without breaking a sweat, cost them almost nothing to do so because of the changes in technology.

2:26.0

So something that would have been a horrific event even five years ago today is irrelevant having T-Mobile absorbed sprint because there's also going to be a new fourth provider.

2:44.0

And this gets really goofy, but follow this, the people who own dish network are going to have a new fourth provider that eventually is supposed to take the place of sprint in the marketplace.

3:00.0

And so we're going to go from a company that will just bike capacity from T-Mobile to one that will stand on its own two feet in a couple of years.

3:13.0

But again, the stuff we think about with cellular carriers, home internet providers, cable companies, traditional phone companies, all those boundaries are becoming unimportant.

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