Comment by scarface_74

If Sprint died, the other carriers or Comcast would have bought the carrier. T-mobile was also an also ran and its spectrum allocation was so bad you could never get a signal inside a building.

If Apple died who was going to make an alternate operating system to Microsoft? Do you think that would have caused “The Year of Linux on the desktop”. Apple was far from a huge player in 1996 when the Next acquisition happened. It was almost bankrupt.

A new company isn’t going to just come along and start a nationwide cell phone network and especially not with what was Sprint’s limited spectrum.