T-Mobile US declares war on cable incumbents with Layer3 TV acquisition

In a characteristic move, T-Mobile US has announced it intends to disrupt the UK cable market in same way it has the mobile one.
As ever the narrative focuses on what is described as an uncompetitive market that serves is customers poorly. Apparently cablecos are even more despised in the US than mobile operators and TMUS wants to inject a bit of competition into that space by offering its own OTT video service.
The Layer3 acquisition seems to be a relatively small one (the price wasn’t re