{"id":94300,"date":"2019-05-31T03:39:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T03:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/05\/30\/amazon-mulls-boost-buy-as-t-mobile-and-sprint-seek-merger-approval-report-says"},"modified":"2019-05-31T03:39:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T03:39:02","slug":"amazon-mulls-boost-buy-as-t-mobile-and-sprint-seek-merger-approval-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/31\/amazon-mulls-boost-buy-as-t-mobile-and-sprint-seek-merger-approval-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon mulls Boost buy as T-Mobile and Sprint seek merger approval, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Andrew O’Hara<\/a>
Thursday, May 30, 2019, 08:39 pm PT (11:39 pm ET)<\/span> <\/p>\n

A report on Thursday claims Amazon is interested in buying Boost mobile from T-Mobile and Sprint as America’s third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers work to appease regulators in a proposed merger.
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The massive online retailer is considering buying Boost in an effort to gain access to T-Mobile’s wireless network for the next six years \u2014 at a minimum. T-Mobile and Sprint have already agreed<\/a> to part ways with the Boost brand in an attempt to lower their combined market share ahead of the planned merger, reports Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Boost Mobile is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) under the Sprint umbrella that sells prepaid plans for talk, text, and data. The sale of Boost could be in the ballpark of $3 billion dollars according to other potential bidders.<\/p>\n

The report also asserts that Amazon is interested in picking up any wireless spectrum that the two carriers are looking to sell.<\/p>\n

Amazon currently doesn’t make any phone or cellular products, but if the company had its own cellular network or access to “New T-Mobile’s” network, it could build the technology into existing products such as the Fire line in an effort to better compete with the likes of Apple.<\/p>\n

As for the T-Mobile-Sprint merger, the Department of Justice has reportedly pushed the telcos to bring their divested resources together to create a new, smaller carrier<\/a> that could compete against the newly conjoined company, as well as AT&T and Verizon. Selling Boost alone wouldn’t seem to be enough to win over regulators, and doing so might might make it more difficult to meet DOJ demands.<\/p>\n

FCC chairman Ajit Pai has already said<\/a> he will approve the merger, though the Justice Department has not voiced<\/a> the same enthusiasm<\/a> and is taking a more conservative approach.<\/p>\n

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