Well it will certainly be interesting.
But seriously would Verizon rather pick up a Satellite provider or another Land Line service ?
Keep in mind how they hardly up keep half their infrastructure now.
The Fios customers are taken care of , but the rest OMG.
I would place my money on Verizon buying Dish.
And Tampa makes excellent points, and I remember all of those claims of Verizon never working with Dish.
But the fact is its all about money.
It would be stupid for Verizon and or Dish to walk away from this deal, with that other Cash cow( AT&T) hanging around.
When T mobile wants to supply land line Internet options at the speeds that are currently in place with the Cable and Fiber industry, well that would be IMO a different story.
But all T mobile can offer is great service in the big citys, but Nothing to where Verizon already has Landline and Wireless services in the Rural areas.
I'm in Pa and there are 30 miles radius patches all over the state where T Mobile is dead.
And Yes I had 1 T mobile Prepaid phone up until last December.
Because I was going to consider the service myself.
It just simply didn't work where it needed to.
These reason lead me to believe Charlie would lean to Verizon.
Unless TV sales are down, I don't think most people are using cell phone data to watch TV.
during my sentence oh contract with verizon fios sucked, calling customer service was a ordeal, get thru many auto attendants only to hear all reps are busy now please try your call again later goodbye,
i called to cancel my expensive outgoing phone calling package on my business line, since i was using my cell phone instead.
the idiot CSR cancelled my business line, they fixed it within a hour, but the system burped a couple days later, and again called my business line. that took many days to fix
i finally had verizon remove everything from mu home, all the fios stuff along with all the copper infrastructure outside. the tech who did the removal said you arent the only one.
they had refused to remove anything till I told them I am getting a large banner printed VERIZON FIOS SUCKS,,,,,,,,,,