Just to get back on topic:

TMO claims their announcement is a game changer. Personally, I can’t see how carrying one or two great phones, Blackberry and/or n900, could be a game changer. Super-competitive pricing perhaps might work, but a good line-up of phones, doesn't seem to be a game changer. Sprint has done the pricing thing, and that hasn't helped enough yet. So my guess the game changer is something else.

It’s true that the TMO Sprint merger rumors have been around for a few years, but I think that fact is reason enough to suspect that a merger may be imminent.

Both Sprint and TMO are dying out there and both need to grow quickly now more than ever before. Everyone's tired of the rumors, so no one really believes it, but large corporations often take years to finally decide to merge. In the past both have expressed the willingness, but the times were wrong. I think this UK Telegraph article is convincing; especially in view of the recent merger of TMO UK and France Telecom Orange, and that the chief executive at Deutche Telecom has pledged to reverse the fortunes of both T-Mobile UK and T-Mobile US http://tinyurl.com/puusu8