Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, July 26, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, the T-Mobile Sprint merger gets the go-ahead, a whole bunch of Odds and End's Apple Stories.

Soft Bank announces a new Vision Fund, the biggest earnings wrap-up of the

calendar. It turns out that Chris Hughes was serious about breaking up Facebook and the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

This has been a weirdly jam-packed news day for a summer Friday, so let's get right into it.

The Department of Justice has officially approved the $26 dollar T-Mobile Sprint merger.

You might recall, one of the things holding up the merger was the notion that the DOJ

wanted to somehow get the merging companies to divest enough

assets and then combine those assets with assets from other companies to

essentially create a fourth major carrier from scratch to replace the fourth carrier that would be becoming the third

major carrier. Well quoting the verge the justice department finally approved the

deal after DISH reached an agreement with the carriers to acquire

Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Sprint's prepaid business, and certain Spectrum assets.

This will position DISH as the replacement fourth major U.S. carrier that will be lost once T-Mobile

and Sprint merge.

The two companies will be required to provide at least 20,000 cell sites and hundreds of retail

locations to DISH and the

satellite TV provider will also get unfettered access to T-Mobile's network

for seven years as it works to build out a mobile network

of its own using the newly acquired assets

and spectrum that dish has held on to for years.

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