The Tea Party is motivating liberals, who may be unhappy with compromising Obama, but are scaredtodeath the New Deal and the Great Society programs they cherish might be dismantled.
The difference between this rumored deal with Sprint and that of a normal MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) would be the possible integration of cellphones with VOIP service, something that the traditional phone companies are scaredtodeath of, but integrates perfectly with the current VOIP ambitions of the cable companies.