The report suggests that is about harvesting much more wi-fi spectrum; my colleague Allison pointed out in 2022 that US Mobile “tends to supply service the place a number of the main carriers don’t.” (It might actually be good for T-Cellular and Verizon prospects to have higher protection, however I would favor competitors to decrease my wi-fi invoice.)
T-Cellular would reportedly pay over $2 billion for wi-fi spectrum licenses and take over “some operations;” the WSJ doesn’t say what Verizon desires, however says US Mobile “additionally owns greater than 4,000 mobile towers that weren’t a part of the newest sale talks.”
The thought behind splitting up US Mobile between T-Cellular and Verizon, the WSJ suggests, is to maintain antitrust regulators from blocking the deal. Regulators wound up letting T-Cellular merge with Dash after guarantees that it will flip Dish into a brand new fourth main US mobile provider, however last we checked, Dish had but to turn into a significant competitor.