Five years ago this week… Altice announced a multi-year mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) deal with Sprint to sell its mobile services on the latter’s wireless carrier network. Faultline could not help but see this as a missed opportunity to access top quality mobile network infrastructure and a successfully disruptive company ethos at T-Mobile, which would have offered Sprint a far better shot at chasing down AT&T and Verizon. Naturally, Sprint took our advice just a few months later, announcing a merger with T-Mobile in April 2018. — Netflix has selected a company called Motion Spell as the exclusive commercial licensor of the open source framework called GPAC (Graphics Project on Advanced Content) – providing a modular multimedia framework…