Colorado Drops Its T-Mobile-Sprint Lawsuit After Dish Agrees To House Headquarters In the State (theverge.com) 13
In the latest swirl of T-Mobile-Sprint merger drama, Colorado is exiting a lawsuit challenging the deal after Dish Network agreed to house its new wireless headquarters in the state. The Verge reports: The Colorado Attorney General's Office announced its decision on Monday after Dish promised that the state would be one of the first in the nation to receive 5G services and become the home of its new wireless headquarters, creating thousands of jobs. The DOJ approved the T-Mobile-Sprint merger back in July after it was able to piece together a new wireless competitor by allocating some of Sprint's spectrum to Dish. The Federal Communications Commission formally voted to approve the merger late last week. Dish is positioned to become the third largest wireless competitor after negotiations with the Justice Department to approve the merger.
Dish won't be building out a new headquarters, however. The company already houses its call center employees at the "Riverfront" facility in Littleton, Colorado and any new wireless HQ employees will work in that building (which looks eerily like a Cabela's location) as well. Colorado was formerly part of a multistate lawsuit spearheaded by the New York State Attorney General's office aimed at blocking the merger. Colorado is now the second state to drop out of the suit along with Mississippi. A trial date is set for December 9th. In a press release, Dish said that it "expects to employ 2,000 full-time employees" at the Colorado headquarters over the next three years. "The agreements we are announcing today address those concerns by guaranteeing jobs in Colorado, a statewide buildout of a fast 5G network that will especially benefit rural communities, and low-cost mobile plans," Chief Deputy Attorney General Natalie Hanlon Leh said in a statement to The Colorado Sun. "Our announcement today ensures Coloradans will benefit from Dish's success as a nationwide wireless competitor."
Dish won't be building out a new headquarters, however. The company already houses its call center employees at the "Riverfront" facility in Littleton, Colorado and any new wireless HQ employees will work in that building (which looks eerily like a Cabela's location) as well. Colorado was formerly part of a multistate lawsuit spearheaded by the New York State Attorney General's office aimed at blocking the merger. Colorado is now the second state to drop out of the suit along with Mississippi. A trial date is set for December 9th. In a press release, Dish said that it "expects to employ 2,000 full-time employees" at the Colorado headquarters over the next three years. "The agreements we are announcing today address those concerns by guaranteeing jobs in Colorado, a statewide buildout of a fast 5G network that will especially benefit rural communities, and low-cost mobile plans," Chief Deputy Attorney General Natalie Hanlon Leh said in a statement to The Colorado Sun. "Our announcement today ensures Coloradans will benefit from Dish's success as a nationwide wireless competitor."
Everybody has a price (Score:2)
QPQ
This is old stuff. Who will be left holding the bag? Rhetorical question...
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Who cares? The same pockets are getting stuffed no matter who tags the cattle.
Big gov (Score:2)
Of course (Score:4, Funny)
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it."
â"Ashleigh Brilliant.
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You beat me to the snide comment about this but I must admit it is a great quote. Thanks.
Military Industrial Complex does this (Score:2)
I like how the ruling class has us completely under control with the constant threat of job losses. Marx predicted this, but all anybody can remember about him is that a couple of two bit thug dictators used his books for rhetoric.
Re:Military Industrial Complex does this (Score:5, Insightful)
>"I like how the ruling class has us completely under control with the constant threat of job losses. Marx predicted this."
Riiiiight. Because the same corrupt governments that can cave to business interests should go ahead and just own/control all business. That will fix everything. Not....
Nothing does business worse than government, where the money is "free" and bureaucracy is overwhelming. Where the customers are captive, efficiency doesn't matter, and competition vanishes. Where innovation is not rewarded and idealistic group-think treats the consumers as annoyances.
No system is perfect, but one where the government exerts massive control over business is much worse than what we have now. Government needs to be smaller, more local, more responsive, more responsible, and focused on preventing and busting monopolies. Not bigger, more expensive, more wasteful, less local, and more corrupt.
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The part they don't mention (Score:1)
All the Sprint employees who are going to get their walking papers because their positions have become redundant. But hey, sacrifices must be made in the name of job creation, or something like that.
Is 5G for rural areas or super-dense areas? (Score:1)
Something is fundamentally wrong (Score:2)
I lived in California until 2017. Me & my wife had two cell numbers, first TMobile, then Google Fi. We paid ~$100/month with tmob, then ~$70 with Fi. We moved across the pond. Now we have three cell numbers (one for our daughter). I pay $7/month for 10 gig of data and $3 for everything else. My wife pays around $8, daughter $5. The country also has 4 cell providers.