the FCC has approved the country’s third and fourth largest telecom operators T-Mobile and Sprint merge. The FCC approved it by a vote of 3-2.

a value of 26 billion dollars, or around 23.5 billion euros the arrangement is believed to create a third strong competitor to the current top duos Verizon and AT&T behind. The birth of a new company to be able to invest in the next generation of mobile technology, namely the 5g connections, and improve digital services from the country’s remote areas, the FCC chairman Ajit Pai said.

the unification of the critics are afraid of a rise in prices, because of the arrangement with the Us wireless communications market to manage three large companies.

the U.s. justice department has already given permission for the merger. It is, however, pending a number of states in comprehensive lawsuits, which concern the telecommunications market competition situation. T-Mobile and Sprint have told us that they do not make the final merger decision before the case is closed.

Nokia expect to connect

the unification of the realization is expected in the Finnish network equipment manufacturer Nokia, which reported in July 2018, he performed with T-Mobile 5g networks related to the business agreement. A multi-year contract is worth 3.5 billion dollars, or worth about 3.2 billion euros. Multi-year agreement includes, among other things, base stations, management software, equipment and engineering services.

Nokia cfo Kristian Pullola said at the end of October in Helsinki said to (you move to another service), that one of the reasons the company’s frizzy displayed in the previous interim report had T-Mobile and sprint in the middle of a merge, that while waiting for “american telecom” has frozen their investment.

the Nokia has a very strong position of these combined companies network, which is why this, in itself, a good thing has changed haasteeks we investment freezing due, he said to HS in an interview.

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