After years of back and forth, Sprint and T-Mobile have finally announced plans to merge. And while there’s plenty of steps that the two companies will have to go through to convince regulators they should be allowed to merge, if you ask T-Mobile and Sprint, the main reason is that the two companies together will be better equipped to roll a next-generation 5G network.

It’s such an important part of the rhetoric behind the merger, in fact, that T-Mobile and Sprint have made an entire website arguing that point, under the branding of “5G for All” (complete with a social media hashtag campaign).

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