• sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    5 hours ago

    Mint and Tmo?

    I shot off the hil based on tmo and vz deal.

    Point being if they want to, they can cut us off.

    Mint was taking too much biz from tmo is why it was bought out is my understanding

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      5 hours ago

      Yeah, that one is painful too. But again, those deals are fairly rare, and for every Mint, there’s another MVNO.

      The only real change we should make here is to require network operators to offer their service to MVNOs at reasonable rates. Ideally, the network would operate as a separate business from the carrier. But we only really need to enforce that if MVNOs disappear, and there are still a ton of options.