Tech headlines of the week

T-Mobile and Sprint merger: As someone who is a Sprint customer, I am excited about this. Imagine… improved service. I might be able to post and potential to accelerate the spread of high-tech 5G networks, the next-generation wireless technology, which is so fast that people can download an entire movie in seconds rather than a few minutes. At the same time, it could potentially lead to higher prices.

 A few other negatives:

Negative for consumers, who would have less choice than ever.

Sprint must sell its Boost Mobile brand, and T-Mobile must sell its interest in Dish Network.

Which leads me to what happens…  and who will be your new carrier?

Sprint subscribers will become T-Mobile customers

Customers of Sprint’s prepaid brands — those include Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile and Sprint prepaid — you will soon become a Dish Network customer.

T-Mobile customers, don’t expect much to change right away. It will take time for the company to integrate the two wireless networks so that they work well. Behind the scenes, there will be a lot of activity stitching the network technologies and assets of both firms into one.

The merge still faces roadblocks by a coalition of states that have sued to block the merger in federal court. That case is expected to go to trial next month.

 Twitter Topics: Twitter this year has been focused on new features aimed at making it easier for users to find what they're looking for and to control their experiences on the social network

The Topics feature will let people follow more than 300 areas of interest across subjects like sports and entertainment, similar to how they follow individual Twitter accounts. Twitter is promising that the Topics tweets you'll see in your timeline will come from accounts with credibility.

Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion: The next time you Google “how to be healthy amid cookie craving season,” Fitbit may be the first result. Google has confirmed that it is buying the company that makes watches that guilt you into taking the stairs—in a move to compete with the Apple Watch—for $2.1 billion. In cold, hard, cash.

Soo NOW the question is how the companies will use your data?

Google will boost its hardware and will also get a lot more scrutiny over the data Fitbit users have shared in the past. Things like private health information, and data that Fitbit would hand over to Google.