Report: Google to sell phone plans via Sprint, T-Mobile

[JordanWearinThe45]

Two day after reporting on Google's (GOOG +2.2%) SpaceX investment (confirmed a day later), The Information reports Google (GOOG +2.2%) is getting ready to "sell mobile phone plans directly to customers and manage their calls and mobile data over a cellular network."

Google won't be building its own network, but will instead operate as an MVNO leveraging Sprint (S +5.8%) and T-Mobile's (TMUS +1.9%) networks. Deals for wholesale network access are reportedly on the way. Sprint and (to a lesser extent) T-Mobile have caught a bid on the report.

Becoming a U.S. mobile carrier with Sprint/T-Mobile's help risks upsetting AT&T and Verizon, who still tower over the local telecom landscape. However, it also gives Google a chance to experiment with novel/low-cost service plans, perhaps with the hope that other carriers (in the U.S. and elsewhere) will follow suit. Google also might be betting Android is too well-entrenched at this point for AT&T and/or Verizon to respond too harshly.

Last April, The Information reported Google has discussed offering mobile services in Google Fiber markets. Q4 results arrive in eight days.

http://seekingalpha.com/news/2234126-report-google-to-sell-phone-plans-via-sprint-t-mobile

Plan are probably gonna be cheap as fukk

 

[STAN JONES]

Will they have a better deal than Tmobiles unlimited everything on 2 lines for $99

If so im jumping ship

 

[newarkhiphop]

 

[ll_simon]

They should just buy TMobile then we can all get jiggy

 

[NatiboyB]

Will they have a better deal than Tmobiles unlimited everything on 2 lines for $99

If so im jumping ship

That's what I got and I'm jumping to.

 

[General Mills]

. My body is ready

 

[↓R↑LYB]

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