Fri. 05/31 - Does Amazon Want To Be A Mobile Carrier?

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🗓️ 31 May 2019

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Might Amazon get into the cellular carrier game and thus make a Sprint/T-Mobile merger more palatable? Uber’s first quarterly report as a public company, what to expect from WWDC next week, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: HappyCog.com/ride Mealime.com Links: Exclusive: Amazon interested in buying Boost from T-Mobile, Sprint - sources (Reuters) Uber stock rises as net losses match expectations (CNBC) APPLE WWDC 2019: MAC PRO, IOS 13, MARZIPAN, AND WHAT ELSE TO EXPECT (The Verge) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Product Breakfast Club podcast The unlikely origins of USB, the port that changed everything (Fast Company) Bing turns 10: Why it’s been more disruptive than you think (Search Engine Land) The Collapsing Crime Rates of the ’90s Might Have Been Driven by Cellphones (The Atlantic) This ID Scanner Company is Collecting Sensitive Data on Millions of Bargoers (OneZero) AT&T Has Become a New Kind of Media Giant (Fortune) The case for caseless iPhones (Vox) Disney’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge theme park lands, explained (Polygon) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meam Ride Home for Friday, May 31st, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.4	Today, Might Amazon get into the cellular carrier, and thus make the Sprint T-Mobile merger more
0:15.3	palatable?
0:16.3	Uber's first quarterly report as a public company?
0:20.0	What to expect from W.W.C. next week and of course the weekend long read suggestions.
0:25.0	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:29.0	Remember what I was saying just yesterday about the DOJ wanting there to be four
0:37.2	major wireless carriers in the US even after Sprint and T-Mobile merge.
0:43.8	Well, I'm not saying this is directly related,
0:46.6	but, quoting Reuters,
0:48.9	Amazon is considering buying Boost,
0:51.7	currently one of Sprint's prepaid brands, mainly because the deal would allow
0:56.0	it to use the new T-Mobile's wireless network for at least six years, one of the sources
1:01.7	said. New T-Mobile is the name used by T-Mobile
1:05.2	and Sprint to refer to the new entity that will result from their potential
1:09.0	merger. Amazon would also be interested in any wireless spectrum that could be divested, the source said.
1:15.2	Amazon declined to comment.
1:17.2	T-Mobile and Sprint did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
1:21.3	It was not immediately clear why the largest U.S. online retailer would want
1:26.2	the wireless network and spectrum, end quote.
1:28.6	Yeah, I can see a ton of reasons why, because this makes a ton of sense.
1:37.0	Amazon has wanted to get into the mobile game for a long time now.
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