One of the biggest challenges for T-Mobile USA, should its proposed acquisition of Sprint be approved, will be to integrate networks that have been designed around completely different assumptions. To achieve the promised goals of the merger will require a highly efficient platform which combines the strengths of each network, but also has a fully unified platform for migration to future 5G and telco cloud systems. This will be no mean feat. Sprint has been focused on dense capacity, squeezing massive performance from LTE in its 2.5 GHz spectrum. The network has been a long time to come to reality, partly because Sprint has – in line with its historic behaviour – been technologically ambitious. It has been an early…