Will the merger of Dish Network and Sprint, heavily on the cards a couple of years ago, prove to be one of the great missed opportunities of the US telecoms market? It now seems likely that T-Mobile USA will join forces with Dish, but if that merger takes place, it will have little of the disruptive potential that could have been there for a Dish/Sprint combination, especially outside the highly competitive, lower-end consumer markets where TMo and Dish are both concentrated. A merger will enable TMo to leapfrog the third largest MNO and achieve larger scale, multiplay services and content partnerships. These three capabilities are vital to survival as a major player in the modern US market, where all the…