(December 7, 2016 at 5:39 am)Tazzycorn Wrote: What are the odds of said investment being actually close to even 10% of what's being trumpeted?
It depends on how it's being invested. If it's being sunk into infrastructure, they could wind up close to --or over-- that total. Without any details, it's just a big number.
I'm more interested in how they plan to add 50,000 new jobs. If this offer is being made on the assumption that the Trump administration will allow the merger between Sprint and T-Mobile, how would they add that many jobs? Don't most mergers --especially ones of this size-- reduce the workforce to eliminate redundancy? Presumably, 50,000 new jobs in a large telecom company are not going to be minimum wage burger flippers or janitors. If they can actually deliver that many jobs I wouldn't care how much of that $50 billion actually gets invested. But right now that's also just a big number.
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