Before T-Mobile acquired Sprint, activists, consumer groups, and deal critics (including me) warned repeatedly that the telecom sector megadeal would result in layoffs, less competition, higher prices, and a lower quality product overall. The Trump FCC and DOJ very clearly didn’t care; they rubber stamped the deal without even reading deal impact reports.
Things started going downhill after Legere stepped down from CEO
But yea, I’m not too affected by trade in deals either, but for different reasons. I just keep “jumping” every year lmao except for the phone I had prior to this one, it currently sits as my longest in use phone at 2.5 years and mostly just because I was committed to having a foldy for my next phone, but had to wait for the pixel fold to drop because I CANNOT stand Samshit phones in general, but also Samshits foldy offering is WAY too narrow lol