AT&T buys T-Mobile

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   20 Mar 2011 ~ 3:12pm Kwitko This will face heavy scrutiny under antitrust laws.
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   20 Mar 2011 ~ 5:26pm drasnor Groan.
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   20 Mar 2011 ~ 6:09pm UPSLynx Ffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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   20 Mar 2011 ~ 7:56pm QuadWhore
   
   Bobby just massacred the newest posts thing.
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   20 Mar 2011 ~ 8:09pm Zanthian As a T-Mobile customer, I am Disappoint.
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   20 Mar 2011 ~ 8:24pm ardichoke Damnit... first Alltel gets bought by Verizon causing me to defect to T-Mobile, now this. So much for good customer service.
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   20 Mar 2011 ~ 8:25pm Cliff_Forster As soon as I perfect human telepathy, they will all be sorry.
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   21 Mar 2011 ~ 2:16am PirateNinja It has not been approved yet, and it may not be approved for a while by regulators.
   If it goes through, you are still going to be using T-Mobile's network assets. This is a strategic move to allow them to get more hot new phones and negotiate better with device manufacturers. Impact on coverage etc can only benefit.
   Even as a demandy nerd customer, I've never had a single issue and I've been with AT&T for 8 years (starting with Cingular). Customer service has been fine, speed has been fine. Yes, I've used other carriers too. Difference is not noticeable on 3g or other pre-4g standards. But that was just my experience...so it doesn't matter
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   21 Mar 2011 ~ 9:08am Thrax This maneuver is not likely to face significant anti-trust scrutiny. Sprint has its own 4G with WiMAX, Verizon has LTE, T-Mo was bleeding customers and it resolves the looming spectrum crunch wherein the next-gen wireless spectra was spread too thin.
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    21 Mar 2011 ~ 9:53am Cliff_Forster Thrax beat me to it. This is inevitable in the wireless market. Probably one of the few cases where having one less player will likely benefit consumers.
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    21 Mar 2011 ~ 10:23am ardichoke All I know is that if T-Mobiles customer service gets folded into AT&Ts customer service, they'll be losing this customer at least. I've had to deal with AT&Ts customer service before and it sucks. I'll go back to Verizon (whom I vowed never to go back to at one point because their sales and service people lied to me multiple times years back) before I willfully subject myself to AT&Ts terrible service.
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    21 Mar 2011 ~ 10:29am Cliff_Forster One thing that this leads me to wonder is if you are a T-Mobile customer, will you be legally free to cancel your service without a fee? I remember that was a debate when Cingular became AT&T and I can't recall what happened there?
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    21 Mar 2011 ~ 11:19am Zanthian http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110321/ap_on_hi_te/us_at_t_t_mobile_usa_phones
    
    NEW YORK – AT&T says that if its deal to buy T-Mobile USA goes through, T-Mobile subscribers with "3G" phones will need to replace those to keep their wireless broadband service working.
    AT&T Inc. on Sunday said it had agreed to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion. If approved by regulators, the deal would close about a year from now.
    AT&T said Monday that it in the year after the closing, it plans to rearrange how T-Mobile's cell towers work. The spectrum they use for third-generation services, or 3G, will be repurposed for 4G, which is faster.
    That would leave current T-Mobile phones without 3G. They would need to be replaced with phones that use AT&T's 3G frequencies. AT&T said it had factored the cost of replacement phones into the total cost of the acquisition.
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    21 Mar 2011 ~ 11:42am UPSLynx Awesome. Now my G1 will HAVE to bite the dust.
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    21 Mar 2011 ~ 12:26pm ardichoke It's like me loving my cell carrier is the magic touch that causes them to be bought by a bigger, unfriendly carrier.
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    21 Mar 2011 ~ 1:59pm primesuspect we're talking over two years from now. I almost guarantee that anyone who is using a 3G phone now will have upgraded by then. A non-issue, IMO.
17. 
    21 Mar 2011 ~ 2:03pm MAGIC
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    21 Mar 2011 ~ 2:36pm Cliff_Forster

    MAGIC wrote:

    

    
    One Ringtone to rule them all, One Ringtone to find them,
    One Ringtone to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
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    21 Mar 2011 ~ 2:45pm Snarkasm That picture is awesome.
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    21 Mar 2011 ~ 5:56pm RWB I wonder how many choices we have now days and if this goes through... Verizon, ATT, Spint?
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    21 Mar 2011 ~ 6:27pm ardichoke That or one of the smaller regional carriers that piggy-back onto one of the big 3.
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    21 Mar 2011 ~ 7:29pm Bandrik The "Eye of Sauron at&t" photo is pretty effing spectacular... but my personal favorite still stands with the "at&t death star" mashups.
    
    
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    21 Mar 2011 ~ 8:09pm ardichoke That would be a lot better on a black background with white lettering... so the missing parts of the Death Star look like they should.
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    22 Mar 2011 ~ 11:38am GHoosdum I heard a great piece on Marketplace yesterday about this, detailing all the ways in which this deal will stifle innovation and raise prices in the mobile marketplace.
    
    http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/03/21/pm-atts-acquisition-of-tmobile-the-ripple-effects/
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    24 Mar 2011 ~ 8:52pm Tim Yet another step towards the one world government, new world order, major corporations running everything, future.
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    24 Mar 2011 ~ 9:27pm shwaip lol.