CG: Is the T-Mobile/Sprint Deal in Trouble? And Making Sense of Streaming Services
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
T-Mobile and Sprint have faced opposition from federal regulators over their planned $26.5 billion merger. Speculation that the deal may not be approved has led Sprint to send a statement to the Department of Justice saying that if the deal gets denied, it may not be able to survive. Fool Contributor Daniel Kline joins Shannon Jones to break that down and to take some time to sort out the streaming video industry.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the show that dives into a different sector of the stock market every single day. |
| 0:08.0 | Today is Tuesday, April the 23rd, and we're talking consumer goods. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm your host Shannon Jones and I am joined via Skype by foolish contributor |
| 0:17.2 | All-around good guy. |
| 0:18.8 | Dan Klein, Dan, how are you? |
| 0:21.2 | I'm good, is it that cold there? |
| 0:23.0 | You're wearing a winter jacket in the studio? |
| 0:25.0 | It depends on where you're at in this building. |
| 0:28.0 | So it's cold in the building, not necessarily. |
| 0:30.0 | In the studio, it tends to be a little chilly. |
| 0:32.0 | But I think we've got like 80 degrees outside today. |
| 0:35.4 | So this jacket has no plans on staying on that much I can assure you. |
| 0:39.7 | It's 80-something here as always. Well so glad to have you on the show today, Dan. |
| 0:45.0 | We've got really two topics to dive into. |
| 0:48.0 | The first is what seems like the never-ending saga between Sprint and T-Mobile. |
| 0:53.2 | And then also, second half of the show, |
| 0:55.5 | we're going to be diving into and trying |
| 0:58.2 | to just make sense of the streaming wars |
| 1:00.8 | and who the key players are. |
| 1:02.4 | But let's go ahead and dive right in into. Meaning Wars and who the key players are. |
| 1:02.5 | But let's go ahead and dive right in |
| 1:04.7 | into the merger madness that is Sprint in T-Mobile. |
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