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Coming up in today's Clark Rage, you're told you fill out this survey and it's anonymous.

No one will know it's you.

Wait till you hear what I got to tell you in today's Clark Rage's moment.

And coming up yet later, you got a problem with the company.

You need to call customer no service.

I got new information for you about when is the best time to call customer no service

that you're not going to be on hold listening to bad music forever.

I want to talk right now about something that I first talked about.

Gosh, was that spring of last year?

It's been a long time.

It was when T-Mobile said they wanted to buy Sprint and it's been sitting there month after

month after month now over a year and it's never gotten to be a real deal because there's

a lot of concern about us going from four cell phone providers in the United States to

three.

And the Justice Department signaled a while back that they would not approve us going

from four to three, which I think is great because in every other country where cell phone

providers have gone from four to three, it's led to much, much, much, much higher prices

for cell phone service.

So the fourth player really matters, which is interesting because there's an old rule

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