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Updated for September: We've added new details following the death of the Sprint brand. Subscriptions help fund the work we do every day. You're on T-Mobile—the Sprint brand has officially been discontinued as of August 3—but you will still use your original carrier's network for now.

Eventually, the two networks will merge and everyone on T-Mobile and those that came from Sprint will see greater coverage. If you go to pay your Sprint bill, you might get rerouted to T-Mobile. You can still pay your bill on Sprint. You'll be redirected to the MySprint dashboard.

Nothing is changing with your Sprint plan. You can continue adding new lines or change your rate if you want. Or you can switch over to T-Mobile. Transferring your service won't count as a new account, so you won't get all the added benefits of a new T-Mobile customer. You will also first need to pay off your Sprint phone completely and satisfy any other financial obligations you have on your Sprint account.

Both carriers have long offered certain benefits to their respective subscribers, like streaming services bundled into plans. At the moment you can't access the other carrier's benefits or promotions, but expect some kind of universal promotion in the future.

The exception is T-Mobile Tuesdays , the app that offers free stuff and deals every Tuesday from various partners.

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On-device usage is prioritized over tethering usage, which may result in higher speeds for data used on device. T-Mobile and Sprint customers can earn up to 50x the average U. T-Mobile and Sprint have merged to create the leader in 5G. What does this mean for you? Sprint customers, welcome to T-Mobile. Qualifying plan and capable device required. Got questions? Building a network for ALL.

Massive capacity. Over the next six years, our capacity will increase 14x over what we have today. Working to connect every student. Find out more. We knew back in that T-Mobile and Sprint competed particularly closely in low-cost wireless services.

If it was really critical to keep four players in the wireless market—so important that DISH needed to enter—why even let T-Mobile buy Sprint in the first place? These frustrations have fueled heated criticism of the merger. Such critiques are well-placed, as the merger has already produced harm and threatens to wreak more damage. Besides hobbling DISH, T-Mobile will degrade the quality of its service this April by automatically enrolling its subscribers into an aggressive, personalized ad-targeting program.

Now, we have a premium product. Translation: the era of aggressive price competition in wireless is over. T-Mobile is already prepared to deliver on this prospect. Stock buybacks benefit the investor class, whose members are disproportionately the wealthiest people in America; recent surveys show that the top 10 percent of households own approximately 80 percent of all stocks. In contrast, nearly all households across the income distribution buy wireless services, and low-income households particularly favor prepaid plans, a segment where T-Mobile and Sprint had competed vigorously pre-merger.

With its latest proclamations to investors, T-Mobile celebrates the fact that its merger will transfer billions of wealth from average Americans to the rich, further widening the chasm between the haves and have-nots. In this postmortem, we examine how the deal came to close, and what we might learn from the mistakes made along the way.

DOJ should never have approved the deal in the first place. Four-to-three mergers deservedly raise eyebrows, and evidence from other countries showed that mergers in the wireless market would increase prices. Further, the post-merger market shares blasted through the HHI thresholds in the Horizontal Merger Guidelines, making the transaction presumptively anticompetitive.

As such, a settlement should never have been on the table. When presented with the deal, Delrahim was eager to refashion the telecom market and less eager to deliver on his charge of protecting consumer welfare. Delrahim took a series of unorthodox steps. He became a mediator between the parties, helping hold the deal together when tensions between the CEOs ran high. He exchanged text messages with Ergen and advised him on how to secure regulatory approval from the Federal Communications Commission, which also needed to approve the deal.

That approach is fundamentally regulatory, imposing ongoing government oversight on what should preferably be a free market.