Season 2, Episode 8: T-Mobile / Sprint

The reinvention of John. Ledger. Of John Ledger. Welcome to Season 2, Episode 8 of Acquired, the podcast about technology acquisitions and IPOs. I'm Ben Gilbert, I'm David Rosenthal, and we are your hosts.

Today we'll be diving into the recently announced or should I say, proposed but not regulator approved Sprint T-Mobile merger. David, you're laughing. Uh I'm laughing. Who who knows what's uh What's real these days. This may be yet another episode where we cover an acquisition much like the Broadcom Qualcomm merger. Um that did not actually happen. And so only time will tell, but now seems like a really fun time to to dive into the topic, hear the crazy stories of both of these companies dating back

over a century and dig into the genesis of where um most of the technology that we use today really really came together here in the Northwest and specifically in Bellevue, Washington. Well. We'll have to dive in. David, don't give me your answer now. Wait till grading, but are we going from four carriers to three or from two carriers to three? Uh well We'll have to wait for that.

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