U.S. Federal Judge Approves T-Mobile-Sprint Merger

In a significant development, a U.S. federal judge has approved T-Mobile's $26 billion acquisition of Sprint, marking the latest hurdle cleared for the highly anticipated merger. The approval comes after months of negotiations and scrutiny from regulatory bodies, ensuring that the combined entity can move forward with its plans to reshape the mobile industry.

T-Mobile's Merger with Sprint: A Game-Changer for Consumers

T-Mobile has long been recognized as a maverick player in the mobile industry, pushing the boundaries of innovation and consumer expectations. The merger with Sprint will further solidify T-Mobile's position as a leader in the market, expanding its reach and capabilities to better serve customers. With this acquisition, T-Mobile aims to redefine itself as a force for good in the industry, promoting competition and driving positive change.

The Impact on Competition and Consumer Benefits

Critics argued that the merger would stifle competition and drive up phone bills, but T-Mobile's supporters argue that the company has consistently prioritized pro-consumer changes. By combining forces with Sprint, T-Mobile will be able to create a more robust network, offering improved coverage and faster speeds to its customers. This development is expected to have far-reaching benefits for consumers, including the possibility of unlimited data plans once again.

The iPhone 9: A Relief for Manufacturing

According to a report from Digi Times, Apple's suppliers are on track to meet production targets for the iPhone 9, also known as the iPhone SE 2. Despite concerns about manufacturing disruptions, it appears that the production process is proceeding smoothly, with deliveries expected to be completed in time for the March event. This news provides a welcome respite for fans of the iPhone, who have been eagerly anticipating the new device.

However, Not All is Well for the iPhone 12

In stark contrast, the situation surrounding Apple's iPhone 12 development appears more precarious. Reports suggest that suppliers are struggling to meet production targets due to restrictions on travel and operations in China, resulting in concerns about delays and potential disruptions to supply chains. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on global manufacturing, and the tech industry is not immune to these challenges.

China's Economic Crisis: A Global Concern

The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the "beer flu," has created significant uncertainty for the global economy, particularly in China where the outbreak is spreading rapidly. With limited hospital capacity and medical resources, the situation is dire. As a result, Apple suppliers have been severely impacted, leading to production delays and supply chain disruptions.

The Future of iPhone 12 Production: Uncertain

While T-Mobile's merger with Sprint has cleared a major hurdle, the same cannot be said for Apple's iPhone 12 development. The company's efforts to assemble devices in India are being tested, but it remains unclear whether this strategy will be enough to offset supply chain challenges. As production deadlines approach, concerns about delays and potential disruptions to iPhone 12 deliveries continue to grow.

The Impact of the Pandemic on the Tech Industry

The COVID-19 pandemic has created significant uncertainty for the tech industry, with far-reaching implications for companies like Apple. As the situation continues to unfold, one thing is clear: the pandemic is having a profound impact on global manufacturing and supply chains. While T-Mobile's merger with Sprint marks an exciting development for consumers, the same cannot be said for Apple's iPhone 12 production, which remains shrouded in uncertainty.

The Bottom Line

The approval of T-Mobile's acquisition of Sprint marks an important milestone for the mobile industry, offering consumers a more competitive landscape and improved services. Meanwhile, Apple faces significant challenges in meeting production targets for the iPhone 12, highlighting the far-reaching implications of the pandemic on global manufacturing. As the situation continues to unfold, one thing is clear: the tech industry will not be immune to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right so today we have some good i phone news and some bad i've owned news which one do you our first one tech news and wheel doesn't suck it to subscribe button and turn on notifications and you'll save a puppy you like you like puppies don't you oh what's going on guys welcome back the front page tech of course show that gives you a latest tech news one key to this week to another that is you happy thursday it's been a busy week packed show a lot of stuff to cover today so let's just jump into the thing let's do it alright so first up for today's story numero uno I was looking through tech news today it's my daily routine obviously before I record the show I looked through a bunch of different news sources decide what I care enough to talk about on this show I'm scrolling through reading articles and I get like halfway through an article and I look I'm like wait this is about me so if you caught yesterday show or you follow me on Twitter you saw that I just dropped a couple hints that I'm about to release the first pixel 5 render I got some files and I'm gonna give it to you just give us you a quick heads up that's all but BGR decided that for some reason that deserved a whole article literally he wrote a whole article about this about just a couple of tweets like what like I understand right like when I put out the render if then you guys want to cover it look you just you just literally wrote a whole article about how I'm gonna do a thing if this was the NFL somebody would have thrown a flag by now for the false start either way thanks I guess thank you for that yeah thank you okay so I guess if you guys are gonna write articles about it you might as well have more context so I'll give you some some people some sources good sources gave me some CAD files for specifically the pixel 5x L and I want to give you like an actual 3d render of that device but since I'm a friend dumbass with no talent I paid somebody else I'm paying somebody else to make the 3d render probably be ready for tomorrow's episode so I'll show you then there you go there's the update all right next up and this is crazy it's crazy and it's sad but also proud necessary Mobile World Congress like the world's largest mobile tech show happens every year in Barcelona eyes cancelled legit like they canceled the thing okay so on the screen right now I just want you to know this is the word I want to say okay but I can't say that word because YouTube de monetizes it I'm not lying like I can't say this word because the episode we'll get demonetised and suppressed in the algorithm so instead of saying this word I'm gonna call it the beer flu and okay because of the beer flu Mobile World Congress is now completely canceled it had been going on where companies that were scheduled to attend Mobile World Congress as they do every year they had started to drop out of showing up to this event over fear of the beer flu obviously after so many companies just ditched the event then there's really no need to have the event like no possibility to have the event because the people that are supposed to go there and be there and present at said event just aren't going anymore I mean they tried their best GSMA the people that run the event they tried to like avoid and ban people from China coming to the event just to like prevent any possibility of a spread of the beer flu but at that point like if you're gonna ban people from going if companies aren't going just why not even have there's always next year I mean every year on this show we talk about Mobile World Congress we cover it every single year so it's really sad to see it be cancelled this time around but people are more important than phones like every freaking time and I tweeted this a couple days ago about the beer flu I have a bunch of sources from China that live in China you know just for regular tech stuff that normally give me tech information but those people can't go to work and they've been giving me other information a lot of proof of stuff that it's just scary and it's much it's worse than we're being told and I have information I'm just conflicted about talking about it and you could probably find the information elsewhere like if you if you actually do your research in Google this stuff I just feel like it's not my place cuz I just make a tech show that's filled with like goofy and fart jokes and it's not my place to talk about some this is I have a text show front page Tech is a tech show and this what's actually going on in the world is much much bigger than tech and I just feel like it's not my place so just know I try to tell you a few days ago that it's worse than you think worse than we're being told and now we have stuff like this happening where the world's biggest mobile event has been cancelled so Franken sucks alright so next up this actually happened yesterday but we've been covering this story for well over a year so we might as well give you like one of the final updates the t-mobile Sprint merger so the merger even though we know they've been planning on doing it it's run into a few obstacles you could say because the US government wants to protect consumers from monopolies and we only as it is we only have four major US carriers yes there are other smaller MVNOs that sort of piggyback off of the main ones but there are four major US carriers and this merger would bring us down to three and that like stifles competition so there was a chance that the government would be like huh now it can't happen like for example if Verizon and AT&T asked to merge the government would laugh in their face but t-mobile's stance was Sprint is that if they merge it actually is better for competition because they'll be bigger and better and be able to offer better options against Verizon and AT&T so the FCC actually went ahead and approved this merger back in November of last year we covered that then but then will happen was a group of state AG's went ahead and filed an antitrust lawsuit trying to block and prevent it of course as per usual those states were arguing that combining joining those to sprint and t-mobile would actually go against the public's interest and not serve them saying that would actually hinder competition and everyone's phone bills would be more expensive but yesterday officially a u.s. federal judge went ahead and approved t-mobile's 26 billion with a baby our acquisition of sprint stating t-mobile has redefined itself over the past decade as a maverick that has spurred the two largest players in its industry to make numerous pro-consumer changes which by the way that's accurate that is completely true I say that every time we talk about t-mobile they have completely single-handedly changed the mobile industry they reshaped the whole thing reformed our expectations as consumers of the mobile industry they're the reasons that we have like unlimited data again to an extent they're the reasons that we don't have contracts more and more so yeah that's accurate so there you go it's final hurdle has been jumped over they did it the merger is approved and it might be finalized in April really with this everybody wins especially Sprint customers we know guys you don't got it you don't gotta try to pretend we know your service sucks a bunch of honky tonky donkey dick we're aware and we're there for you so much so that we approve somebody to come and save you you're welcome all rights last up for the day let's talk about the iPhones let's talk both about the iPhone 9 and the iPhone 12 got news that affects both of those things again this has to do with the beer flue I hate calling it that but thanks YouTube according to a report from digi times the suppliers are actually gonna be ok in terms of the iPhone 9 what they're calling the iPhone se 2 but probably the iPhone 9 apparently manufacturing for that will be fine go as planned to be ready for March the phone be ready for the March event so this phone right here which a lot of you are excited about which is kind of surprising kind of cool to see this is gonna be available should go as planned and be ready for that event in March but the iPhone 12 that that is the one that we might have some issues with so again this is according to digi times they're saying that even though the iPhone 9 is seemingly good to go Apple has actually stopped sending engineers to China to assist with engineering validation tests or EVT staging of the iPhone 12 development now this isn't new information I think last week we reported that app was trying to restrict and stop Apple employees from traveling to China and this has everything to do with that apples calling it business critical Apple has restricted their employees from traveling to China unless it's quote unquote business critical purposes and because of the beer flu and all of this stuff Apple suppliers themselves have stopped operation a lot of them have stopped operation now I do read your guys's comments this is still one-way street I listen to you and a lot of you are saying that well Apple could make some stuff in India and that's true and they probably have started to try to I don't know a production in the India side of things and they can assemble stuff there but it's important to remember that a lot of the the pieces and the parts that they need are still manufactured in China and you can't assemble shreked if you don't have the parts so yeah they might have some pretty big problems trying to manufacture iPhone 12 units which is supposed to start in June I believe like they're actually supposed to start manufacturing in June and who knows where we're gonna end up here because it's not like we're just dealing with the aftermath of the beer flu right like it is actively happening it's happening right now and it's spreading we don't really know when it's gonna be okay it's kind of scary and yes I know that like more people die from the flu or whatever you frankerz say in the comments yeah in America where it's it's probably easier to get treated but the symptoms for this beer flu show up sort of late and China is crazy crazily overpopulated they don't have enough hospitals enough doctors to treat this so yes it is scary for them sure we're fine in America good for you motherfrakkers but it is scary for the people that are living it that live in China that don't have the proper resources they need it's it's scary so either way the phones don't matter the tech doesn't matter it's scary news for the economy in terms of the tech side of things but it's scarier for people and we've got to remember that part and that's the show hopefully you like to you learn something if you did hit that like a button if you hate my stupid face the dislike button works too that's cool if you're new here subscribe and I will see you guys to marryall right so today we have some good i phone news and some bad i've owned news which one do you our first one tech news and wheel doesn't suck it to subscribe button and turn on notifications and you'll save a puppy you like you like puppies don't you oh what's going on guys welcome back the front page tech of course show that gives you a latest tech news one key to this week to another that is you happy thursday it's been a busy week packed show a lot of stuff to cover today so let's just jump into the thing let's do it alright so first up for today's story numero uno I was looking through tech news today it's my daily routine obviously before I record the show I looked through a bunch of different news sources decide what I care enough to talk about on this show I'm scrolling through reading articles and I get like halfway through an article and I look I'm like wait this is about me so if you caught yesterday show or you follow me on Twitter you saw that I just dropped a couple hints that I'm about to release the first pixel 5 render I got some files and I'm gonna give it to you just give us you a quick heads up that's all but BGR decided that for some reason that deserved a whole article literally he wrote a whole article about this about just a couple of tweets like what like I understand right like when I put out the render if then you guys want to cover it look you just you just literally wrote a whole article about how I'm gonna do a thing if this was the NFL somebody would have thrown a flag by now for the false start either way thanks I guess thank you for that yeah thank you okay so I guess if you guys are gonna write articles about it you might as well have more context so I'll give you some some people some sources good sources gave me some CAD files for specifically the pixel 5x L and I want to give you like an actual 3d render of that device but since I'm a friend dumbass with no talent I paid somebody else I'm paying somebody else to make the 3d render probably be ready for tomorrow's episode so I'll show you then there you go there's the update all right next up and this is crazy it's crazy and it's sad but also proud necessary Mobile World Congress like the world's largest mobile tech show happens every year in Barcelona eyes cancelled legit like they canceled the thing okay so on the screen right now I just want you to know this is the word I want to say okay but I can't say that word because YouTube de monetizes it I'm not lying like I can't say this word because the episode we'll get demonetised and suppressed in the algorithm so instead of saying this word I'm gonna call it the beer flu and okay because of the beer flu Mobile World Congress is now completely canceled it had been going on where companies that were scheduled to attend Mobile World Congress as they do every year they had started to drop out of showing up to this event over fear of the beer flu obviously after so many companies just ditched the event then there's really no need to have the event like no possibility to have the event because the people that are supposed to go there and be there and present at said event just aren't going anymore I mean they tried their best GSMA the people that run the event they tried to like avoid and ban people from China coming to the event just to like prevent any possibility of a spread of the beer flu but at that point like if you're gonna ban people from going if companies aren't going just why not even have there's always next year I mean every year on this show we talk about Mobile World Congress we cover it every single year so it's really sad to see it be cancelled this time around but people are more important than phones like every freaking time and I tweeted this a couple days ago about the beer flu I have a bunch of sources from China that live in China you know just for regular tech stuff that normally give me tech information but those people can't go to work and they've been giving me other information a lot of proof of stuff that it's just scary and it's much it's worse than we're being told and I have information I'm just conflicted about talking about it and you could probably find the information elsewhere like if you if you actually do your research in Google this stuff I just feel like it's not my place cuz I just make a tech show that's filled with like goofy and fart jokes and it's not my place to talk about some this is I have a text show front page Tech is a tech show and this what's actually going on in the world is much much bigger than tech and I just feel like it's not my place so just know I try to tell you a few days ago that it's worse than you think worse than we're being told and now we have stuff like this happening where the world's biggest mobile event has been cancelled so Franken sucks alright so next up this actually happened yesterday but we've been covering this story for well over a year so we might as well give you like one of the final updates the t-mobile Sprint merger so the merger even though we know they've been planning on doing it it's run into a few obstacles you could say because the US government wants to protect consumers from monopolies and we only as it is we only have four major US carriers yes there are other smaller MVNOs that sort of piggyback off of the main ones but there are four major US carriers and this merger would bring us down to three and that like stifles competition so there was a chance that the government would be like huh now it can't happen like for example if Verizon and AT&T asked to merge the government would laugh in their face but t-mobile's stance was Sprint is that if they merge it actually is better for competition because they'll be bigger and better and be able to offer better options against Verizon and AT&T so the FCC actually went ahead and approved this merger back in November of last year we covered that then but then will happen was a group of state AG's went ahead and filed an antitrust lawsuit trying to block and prevent it of course as per usual those states were arguing that combining joining those to sprint and t-mobile would actually go against the public's interest and not serve them saying that would actually hinder competition and everyone's phone bills would be more expensive but yesterday officially a u.s. federal judge went ahead and approved t-mobile's 26 billion with a baby our acquisition of sprint stating t-mobile has redefined itself over the past decade as a maverick that has spurred the two largest players in its industry to make numerous pro-consumer changes which by the way that's accurate that is completely true I say that every time we talk about t-mobile they have completely single-handedly changed the mobile industry they reshaped the whole thing reformed our expectations as consumers of the mobile industry they're the reasons that we have like unlimited data again to an extent they're the reasons that we don't have contracts more and more so yeah that's accurate so there you go it's final hurdle has been jumped over they did it the merger is approved and it might be finalized in April really with this everybody wins especially Sprint customers we know guys you don't got it you don't gotta try to pretend we know your service sucks a bunch of honky tonky donkey dick we're aware and we're there for you so much so that we approve somebody to come and save you you're welcome all rights last up for the day let's talk about the iPhones let's talk both about the iPhone 9 and the iPhone 12 got news that affects both of those things again this has to do with the beer flue I hate calling it that but thanks YouTube according to a report from digi times the suppliers are actually gonna be ok in terms of the iPhone 9 what they're calling the iPhone se 2 but probably the iPhone 9 apparently manufacturing for that will be fine go as planned to be ready for March the phone be ready for the March event so this phone right here which a lot of you are excited about which is kind of surprising kind of cool to see this is gonna be available should go as planned and be ready for that event in March but the iPhone 12 that that is the one that we might have some issues with so again this is according to digi times they're saying that even though the iPhone 9 is seemingly good to go Apple has actually stopped sending engineers to China to assist with engineering validation tests or EVT staging of the iPhone 12 development now this isn't new information I think last week we reported that app was trying to restrict and stop Apple employees from traveling to China and this has everything to do with that apples calling it business critical Apple has restricted their employees from traveling to China unless it's quote unquote business critical purposes and because of the beer flu and all of this stuff Apple suppliers themselves have stopped operation a lot of them have stopped operation now I do read your guys's comments this is still one-way street I listen to you and a lot of you are saying that well Apple could make some stuff in India and that's true and they probably have started to try to I don't know a production in the India side of things and they can assemble stuff there but it's important to remember that a lot of the the pieces and the parts that they need are still manufactured in China and you can't assemble shreked if you don't have the parts so yeah they might have some pretty big problems trying to manufacture iPhone 12 units which is supposed to start in June I believe like they're actually supposed to start manufacturing in June and who knows where we're gonna end up here because it's not like we're just dealing with the aftermath of the beer flu right like it is actively happening it's happening right now and it's spreading we don't really know when it's gonna be okay it's kind of scary and yes I know that like more people die from the flu or whatever you frankerz say in the comments yeah in America where it's it's probably easier to get treated but the symptoms for this beer flu show up sort of late and China is crazy crazily overpopulated they don't have enough hospitals enough doctors to treat this so yes it is scary for them sure we're fine in America good for you motherfrakkers but it is scary for the people that are living it that live in China that don't have the proper resources they need it's it's scary so either way the phones don't matter the tech doesn't matter it's scary news for the economy in terms of the tech side of things but it's scarier for people and we've got to remember that part and that's the show hopefully you like to you learn something if you did hit that like a button if you hate my stupid face the dislike button works too that's cool if you're new here subscribe and I will see you guys to marry\n"