Sprint may give way to T-Mobile brand if merger goes through, break-up fee possibly much higher

As the wireless industry ponders what life might look like if Sprint and its parent, SoftBank, are able to acquire T-Mobile USA in a $32 billion deal, reports are surfacing stating that the agreement between the two companies has a bit more at stake than originally thought.



First, the break-up fee, originally reported by The Wall Street Journal as being $1 billion, may actually be $2 billion. While that is not as big a check that AT&T had to write when it unsuccessfully tried to buy T-Mobile, it is quite a bit bigger than some thought, given reports that SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son did ...