CG: The Sprint and T-Mobile Merger Falls Apart . . . Again
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In 2014, regulatory opposition forced Sprint to give up on its plan to acquire T-Mobile. Three years later, the two companies returned to the negotiating table, coming close to finalizing an agreement before the deal fell apart once again. What happened? And what lies ahead for the No. 3 and 4 wireless providers?
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Support for Industry Focus comes from our friends at Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans. |
| 0:04.5 | Home plays a big role in your life. |
| 0:06.5 | That's why Quicken Loans created Rocket Mortgage. |
| 0:08.8 | It lets you apply simply and understand the entire mortgage process fully, so you can be confident that you're |
| 0:14.0 | getting the right mortgage for you. To get started go to rocket mortgage.com slash fool. |
| 0:18.6 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast it dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:25.5 | I'm your host Vincent Shen and today is November 7th. |
| 0:28.5 | For this Consumer and Retail Edition of Industry Focus, |
| 0:31.0 | I have enlisted the help of Fool.com contributor Dan Klein, who is in |
| 0:34.6 | studio with me at full headquarters. Hey Dan, good to have you as always. |
| 0:38.2 | Nice to be here. |
| 0:40.3 | You are in town this time for any special occasion? |
| 0:43.0 | I was speaking to potential college journalists. |
| 0:46.5 | So I guess they're actual college journalists who want to be professional journalists. |
| 0:49.9 | So I got to give them the scary, you know, our profession is not as good as it was |
| 0:54.7 | but there are wonderful places like Motley Fool where if you can make your way |
| 0:58.8 | here eventually it'll be good for you it was actually organized by a former fool as well. |
| 1:03.4 | There you go. And today, Fools, for our main subject of discussion, we are branching out |
| 1:10.0 | into the telecommunications industry for this episode, so you'll a chance Dan to share some of your coverage there. |
| 1:16.2 | It's been a while since we have talked about this space, but I understand that T-Mobile and Sprint have been making headlines in the past several months, really, |
| 1:24.8 | this whole ordeal. |
| 1:26.2 | Those companies are the number three and number four names respectively among U.S. wireless |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Motley Fool, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Motley Fool and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

