Rural US mobile operator UScellular has agreed to sell most of its assets to T-Mobile. In doing so, a regional US provider is taken out of action, bringing more consolidation into the country. Without singing too blindly along to the hymn sheet of the marketeers, this deal leaves T-Mobile and UScellular sitting pretty. It allows UScellular to get out of the capex-intensive game of running a network, and gives T-Mobile access to a new demographic. All will be well, as long as regulators can be convinced. From the perspective of regional customers, they will be served by one of the smaller main operators, which is hungry for growth and more willing to offer competitive deals. T-Mobile will acquire UScellular’s wireless…