Sprint Chief: US Internet Speeds Are “Horrible” -- Even Sprint’s. I Can Fix That.

Sprint Chairman Masayoshi Son lambasted the Internet service currently available to US consumers as “horrible” -- way too slow and way too costly -- even the Internet service offered currently by his own company, the nation’s No. 3 wireless carrier.

But he said he could fix that, if the Obama Administration were to allow Sprint to merge with No. 4 carrier T-Mobile. He said that such a merger -- which he stressed hasn’t been agreed to -- would allow the combined company to gain enough scale to install new technology nationally that he claimed would offer speeds up to 10x current levels in homes.