It's speculation by the business authors; largely based on Masayoshi Son talking about how Legere has done a great job with T-Mobile and how he admires T-Mobile shaking up the US cell phone market. He as also been highly critical of Sprint's management, including statments comparing Sprint to feudal lords who held absolute power on their lands and little power elsewhere. Though I think the fact that Hesse has mentioned he is looking at leaving combined with Legere stating that he will be part of the merged company, makes them feel comfortable with the way they are reading the signals from Son.
One other thing I've seen recently, is the people claiming that Deutsche Telekom will keep a portion of their stake in T-Mobile (about 25%) also is confirmation of the idea that Legere will run the combined company. I think part of it, as well, is that if Legere heads the merged company, he will be allowed to keep most of his management team at T-Mobile -- both because they can get to work faster, since they have a relationship already, and because of their success at T-Mobile (especially compared to Son's frustration with Sprint management).
You can find other articles that talk about it if you do a Google search, but they largely read like the article I linked. At the end, it is largely "best guesses" by the business press.
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Maybe they will consolidate to a lower price point.
