I’m not much of a tech person, but seeing news about Sprint and T-Mobile merging caught my attention. My parents had me using Verizon when I got my first iphone, and then eventually when I started working at the restaurant and got a semi-stable paycheck, I switched over to t-mobile, which I’m glad I did because they started doing T-mobile tuesdays and hey, who would ever say no to free rewards! I remember when Pokemon Go first came out, T-mobile tuesdays offered free data for a year when using Pokemon Go, how cool is that. This is a little sidetrack, but I went ahead and went on reddit to search up the best T-Mobile Tuesday deals/offers. A lot of people talked about the free socks, hats, t-shirts, and the discounted movie tickets (deals brought ticket prices as low as $2). And one time, they even offered tinder gold for just $1!!! Of course I wasn’t too excited for that one, but I know a bunch of my friends were. For me, I remember bringing my son to the movies once with a discounted T-Mobile Tuesdays movie ticket, which was pretty nice. We watched The Good Dinosaur, and wouldn’t recommend it honestly unless you’re going with a young child.
Anyways I’ve done some research about the merge between the two largest phone service providers and the consequences it has for consumers like me. And thanks to me you guys can be blessed with a succinct summary of all the important points. HERE WE GO. So first off, why did the companies merge? Now you may be wondering what the benefits are of the two companies merging. One of these benefits is the expansion of the 5G cellular network, which will offer better service to Sprint and T-Mobile customers nationwide. For those of you who don’t know, 5G is the “better” and “faster” version of 4G, which I’m sure most of you have seen on the top left-hand corner of your screens while experiencing bad connection. However, there are of course downsides to the merge. According to one of the articles I read, the merge will decrease the large cellular service companies to three (AT&T and Verizon being the other two), which decreases competition. This decrease in competition will lead to a decrease in incentives to create better and more innovative service. Just a quick side note, I am a very non-techy person so reading about phone service companies is very out of my comfort zone. If you’re still reading, thank you! Now some of you, like me, are wondering most about how it will effect the monthly phone bills. Lucky for us, T-Mobile promised that phone bills will remain constant for the next three years. But reading further into the article, it says that people are skeptical, as the company will probably have to increase prices in order to make profit. Also another thing to note is that our unlimited plans may be affected (noooooooooo how dare they). All-in-all, it seems that the customers of both T-Mobile and Sprint will be okay. I just hope that they keep T-Mobile Tuesdays. Again, thanks for reading if you got this far! This blog post might have been a little information heavy but it was super fun for me to learn so much about phone service companies! See y’all next week!
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