https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180620/09170440073/sprint-t-mobile-to-fcc-our-job-killing-competition-eroding-megamerger-will-create-jobs-competition.shtml

Americans tend to be oddly gullible when it comes to megamerger promises. Especially over in the telecom sector. Time after time we're told that the latest major deal will provide all manner of amazing synergies, jobs and added competition. And time after time we subsequently realize that the only people that usually benefit from these deals are investors and executives. Shortly after that, we realize that the slow consolidation and steady erosion in competition results in higher rates and even worse service, something AT&T, Comcast and Charter customers are intimately familiar with after decades of M&A mania.

And yet it's a historical lesson we refuse to learn much of anything from.