We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.
A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
There's more to us than the moment we made a bad decision.
We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.
This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S.
I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.
We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.
I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them.
You can't get into the trap of paying for customer acquisition.