ATT to buy T-Mobile
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So some redundant employees, MGMT and other staff best be minding their P's & Q's as layoffs of would not be out of the question I bet.
It will only be a matter of time before Verizon buys Sprint, IMO, giving us only 2 primary carriers
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As a ATT sub I am against this even though it will improve coverage and make many features better. The reason why is because when you eliminate competition it makes it easier for them to pull the crap they are already doing: bandwidth caps and tether spying
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Wow thats a kick in the nads. Verizon might as well buy out Sprint, so VZW and AT&T can merge, after Vodafone sells their share of Verizon Wireless to Verizon and then they can combine land based operations so we can go back to the 1980s. AT&Ts new slogan 'We Own You'
F U AT&T!!! DIE!!! If those morons at the FCC and SEC have any brains at all they will strike this down
F U AT&T!!! DIE!!! If those morons at the FCC and SEC have any brains at all they will strike this down
AT&T and Verizon will never merge, but they may be the only two providers
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AT&T is pretty convinced this is going through or they wouldn't agree on the breakup fee of $3B, spectrum transfer and roaming agreement
AT&T agrees to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion (update) -- Engadget
It looks like the latest Sprint+TMo rumor was a wakeup call for AT&T...
Diogen.
AT&T agrees to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion (update) -- Engadget
It looks like the latest Sprint+TMo rumor was a wakeup call for AT&T...
Diogen.
It just shows how dominate AT&T is with regulators and our government. They can announce two major restrictions (Usage based billing / Tether spying) and go out and buy the fourth largest carrier. I seriously doubt anything will get in the way of what AT&T wants. It's just a sad state of affairs for the consumers who will have to pay whatever Verizon/AT&T decide with little to no competition or regulation to reel them in. Both companies talk about what the future holds. Unfortunately, they hold the keys to the kingdom and are charging quite a steep price for entry. $45.00 for 4 GB of data? Anyone think it's going to ever get cheaper?
Never say never. Verizon is the spawn of Satan (the original AT&T Corp), and I don't think the powers that be at the new AT&T Inc will ever be satisfied until it was like it used to be prior to 1983 and now that we have wireless, not just landline service, along with data and video the bastards that run A Fee & Fee will be looking to take it back to the good ole day when they ruled the roost and enslaved the American people. Given the history of the old AT&T, the dangerous actions of the new AT&T, this company needs to be stopped and soon.
Heavenly Lord I pray, may AT&T and AT&T Mobility be destroyed. Amen.
Heavenly Lord I pray, may AT&T and AT&T Mobility be destroyed. Amen.
AT&T has two "arguments" going for them in the approval process
- they are not the largest (~25% vs. Verizon's ~31%)
- combined with TMo they are a bit over 1/3 of the US market (some 37%)
They will certainly own the GSM market in the US and considering GSM owns 80%+ of the world, that counts for something.
This announcement definitely means the plans are not going to drop in price in the foreseeable future...
Diogen.
- they are not the largest (~25% vs. Verizon's ~31%)
- combined with TMo they are a bit over 1/3 of the US market (some 37%)
They will certainly own the GSM market in the US and considering GSM owns 80%+ of the world, that counts for something.
This announcement definitely means the plans are not going to drop in price in the foreseeable future...
Diogen.
What you are seeing is "Fascist Economics" in action. Fascist economics,unlike capitalism & socialism/communism,is where private ownership is allowed under strict government regulation(to prevent competition against the favored 2 corporations in whatever field of expertise they are in ie. automobile,telecommunications,financial,marketing,etc.As John D. Rockefeller once said,"Competition is a sin.").
Don't know what "fascist" exactly is in this "economics" but it
certainly has nothing to do with how the economy was run in Italy and Germany in the 30s...
"Strict government regulation" would probably make it more akin "Chinese capitalism".
And that might be not such a bad idea considering China owns a sizable chunk
of the US economy while its capitalism is hardly a decade old...
Diogen.
Guys, I do not want this thread to get closed, so lets not go down this political road...Please (I have been guilty of it myself in the past)
I would bet that T-Mobile may get a little upsurge in new subs as many may try to sign up with plans before they go away in order to get grandfathered into plans that will be no more
I think Verizon must be partying...
First, they have a good chance to pick up "defectors" for whom this is the last drop.
Second, AT&T will be busy for a good part of the next year fighting regulatory approval.
Third, it won't be exactly cheap to switch to unified handsets despite them both being GSM.
Fourth, there will certainly be few "strings attached" when this merger is approved.
And in the end, the combined company might be hardly bigger than Verizon and will make their
(Verizon's) potential acquisition of another operator so much easier...
Why not celebrate?
Diogen.
First, they have a good chance to pick up "defectors" for whom this is the last drop.
Second, AT&T will be busy for a good part of the next year fighting regulatory approval.
Third, it won't be exactly cheap to switch to unified handsets despite them both being GSM.
Fourth, there will certainly be few "strings attached" when this merger is approved.
And in the end, the combined company might be hardly bigger than Verizon and will make their
(Verizon's) potential acquisition of another operator so much easier...
Why not celebrate?
Diogen.
Don't know what "fascist" exactly is in this "economics" but it
certainly has nothing to do with how the economy was run in Italy and Germany in the 30s...
"Strict government regulation" would probably make it more akin "Chinese capitalism".
And that might be not such a bad idea considering China owns a sizable chunk
of the US economy while its capitalism is hardly a decade old...
Diogen.
Basically,what you have is strict government regulation of each industry with maybe 2-3 corporations allowed in each industry. In economics you have capitalism,which allows for private ownership of industries;socialism/communism,where the state owns the industries;& fascism(which is what Chinese "Capitalism" actually is) where private ownership of industry is allowed,but it is under strict government regulation(& does no allow for other companies to form to compete with the "favored" companies). Whatever you call it politically &/or economically,the victim of the whole thing is innovation AND choice. It all comes down to the John D. Rockefeller quote I mentioned earlier,"Competition is a sin."
Where I can see packages choices maybe shrinking or slowing if we got to two providers; I can't see innovations shrinking at all as AT&T and Verizon really aren't the players regarding product innovations; think Qualcomm, Samsung, Nokia, LG, Motorola, HTC; Apple, RIM, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, etc.
I hope the FCC doesn't approve this, but I have a bad feeling that it will. AT&T's argument is going to be that they don't have enough wireless spectrum so they're going to buy T-Mobile so they can use as much of their spectrum as they want.
