If only there was a net neutrality law to stop this sort of thing

US telco Sprint has been throttling Microsoft’s Skype service.

If they can get the regulators to agree

T-Mobile US and Sprint have agreed to a $26 billion merger claiming it will create thousands of jobs and help the United States beat China to creating the next generation mobile network.

For US market share

Last Friday, an exclusive report  from Reuters  noted that the SoftBank Group in Japan is financially prepared to give up control of recently acquired Sprint and hand over the keys to Deutsche Telekom AG’s brand in America, also known as T-Mobile USA.

Not the Developer Edition

$20.1 billion

Launching later this April

iPhone costs $7 billion

Goes on sale Friday in several smaller markets