Talk about blowing smoke signals…
SoftBank main man Masayoshi Son – the company that now owns Sprint – spoke to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce yesterday in what most assuredly was meant to garner propaganda headlines aimed at the FCC. Not that the regulatory body overseeing a proposed merger of Sprint and T-Mobile doesn’t already have all the facts it needs to make a decision.
My guess is that was it was a play by Son to curry favor for an approval.
The new Sprint BMOC, (big man on campus), who describes himself as blunt and frequently yells at the execs inside his newest telephone play toy, says that if regulators let him take over T-Mobile that he will revolutionize the American cellphone market the way he did Japan’s, complete with price wars and faster bandwidth speeds.
So how fast is fast? Son wants to provide 1 gigabit per second, same as Google Fiber.
For you non techies who don’t know how fast 1 gigabit per second actually is, it’s so fast, Harley’s comments will show up practically as soon as he thinks them! Continue reading →