Cricket and Metro PCS
PC Magazine’s Segan says that this is the merger he’d most want to see come to realization. Metro PCS and Cricket Wireless—the little fishes in a big mobile pond—already have a decent roaming partnership according to him, but Segan wants more. Segan says he would love to see these two “little guys” join forces to take on the bigwigs of the mobile community. “At their current sizes, they are dependent on other carriers, but I think if these two teamed up that they could engage in some impressive price wars with the big four (Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint),” he says.
Curiously enough, in 2007, Metro PCS offered to buy longtime rival Cricket Wireless, but the offer was denied and the next year the two firms linked up as roaming partners. Both companies are small code division multiple access (CDMA) carriers and they provide very similar services. Segan predicts that if these two mini moguls tag-teamed the market, they could form the world’s 5th largest wireless provider, the main benefit of such a merger being their cheap, broad and unlimited service offerings. In contrast to Segan’s enthusiasm, however, Kumparak thinks that Metro and Cricket have come as far as they can together, and that if they truly wanted to be the Big Four’s 5th wheel, it would have already happened by now.
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Not sure about RIM and Palm, the companies seem far away in synergies.