It makes plenty of sense. The goal is to not let the number of wireless carriers go from 4 to 3. If Sprint is not viable then they'll file for bankruptcy and then Charter or Comcast (or both of them together in a JV) will probably pick up the assets.
“The cellular company with the worse customer service has combined with the cable company you hate....”
More importantly do we really want a media company owning a cellular company? Shouldn’t we be trying to get away from media companies merging with communication providers. Comcast owns NBC/Universal.
