Amazon, the e-commerce giant that also has cloud computing, shipping, grocery, and pharmaceutical businesses, is reportedly considering buying the prepaid phone brand Boost Mobile from its parent company Sprint, according to Reuters.
But the potential deal depends on whether Sprint is able to convince antitrust regulators to approve a proposed $26 billion merger with T-Mobile. If both deals were to happen, it would mean Amazon, which is already under scrutiny for anticompetitive behavior, would expand into yet another area of commerce, and that the number of mobile carriers in the US would drop from four to only three.