T-Mobile and Sprint want you to be scared of China. Fear for yourself instead.

Fear is never the best foundation for a relationship, but it's exactly what T-Mobile and Sprint are counting on to fuel support for their proposed mega-merger. The deal would combine the two companies into a $146 billion behemoth better poised to compete with market leaders Verizon and AT&T.

But while T-Mobile and Sprint certainly want everyone to feel good about wireless competition, what they're really trying to stoke is fear of China.

The country isn't named in the official announcement, which is full of predictable talk of job creation, "synergies," and scale, scale, scale. You can tell a lot from a document's first line, though, and in this case Sprint and T-Mobile chose to emphasize that the merged company would have the network capacity to deploy 5G technology with a "breadth and depth critical to extend U.S. global internet leadership." Read more...

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