Charter, Altice, and Dish are towards the top of the DOJ's list of buyers for assets it'd want T-Mobile and Sprint to divest for their merger:
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Bloomberg also reports that the DOJ would want the companies to sell another prepaid brand in addition to Boost — possibly Virgin Mobile or MetroPCS.Buying wireless assets off of T-Mobile and Sprint would give a cable company such as Altice or Charter the technical backbone it would need to enter the wireless space.
If Charter or especially Altice were to purchase a wireless spectrum license or prepaid brand, it'd be in a position to build a competitive wireless carrier to restore a fourth player to the market. Either company would be able to leverage the customer base of an existing prepaid brand and serve it using purchased spectrum from this divestment, other licensed spectrum as mobile virtual network operators typically employ , or some combination of the two., could be able to ramp up quickly to compete in the mobile market, though the question remains of where it will draw customers from.
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