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AT&T to Buy T-Mobile

Thanks, Rick! I had missed this and I am getting ready to re-negotiate my contract with T-Mobile.

elaine
 
Interesting. I had heard the other day that Sprint was thinking of buying T Mobile.
 
this is going to be horrible for t-moblie customers. I switched from verizon recently after Alltel got brought by Verizon. Went to t-mobile for better rates. Was thinking about virgin mobile or boost but went with t-mobile.. looks like in 1 yr 10 months i may do that for all 4 lines i have.

that will only leave sprint which is not doing well, verizon, att. :mad:
 
According to a good friend of mine, who is extremely knowledgeable on the finances of cell phone industry in the US, it's been apparent for years that Deutsche was going to sell T-Mobile. T-Mobile is just too far behind the other companies in infrastructure to compete effectively. They've essentially been forced into their low margin high volume strategy because that was the only viable option they've had available.

But when you're the smallest player in an capital intensive industry, making a high volume play is a pretty desperate move unless you're sitting on a lot of unused capacity (which T-Mobile isn't).
 
Does this mean we won't have to endure those goofy T-Mobile commercials, anymore?
 
Combining two poor companies into one seldom improves either one and often the attempts to integrate makes them both even worse. This isn't good news. Being biggest isn't going to help make them best.
 
Bummers for T-Mobile customers. I have been with T-Mobile for years and said that I would not leave unless the customer service goes downhill. Well, 18 months left on my family plan and if things are as bad with AT&T as they were back in 2001 when I had them; Hello Verizon.
 
This is not a slam dunk acquisition. There are huge anti-trust issues and Sprint will sue for sure to stop the acquisition if they have to. This one won't be put to bed for years.
 
T-Mobile, Shmee-Mobile.

We take from Bell Verizon & Sprint PCS.

Around here AT&T & T-Mobile are mox nix.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​
 
From today's news, What the merger may mean.

It really doesn't look like it will benefit current AT&T users and not even really sure of any of the benefits for T-Mobile customers, other than iPhone.

It would seem to me that all AT&T wants is to be the biggest boy on the block! (probably so they can raise rates, like mine!!! :( :( )
 
ricoba said:
From today's news, What the merger may mean.

It really doesn't look like it will benefit current AT&T users and not even really sure of any of the benefits for T-Mobile customers, other than iPhone.

It would seem to me that all AT&T wants is to be the biggest boy on the block! (probably so they can raise rates, like mine!!! :( :( )
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Some local Seattle-area coverage (T-Mobile is based in Seattle).

T-Mobile-AT&T deal reshapes wireless industry

As I noted upthread .....
Lacking a clear, long-term plan for next-generation wireless technology, T-Mobile had to invest heavily in its network, partner with a larger company or find a buyer.
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T-mobile has poor reception in my area. Maybe this will help their customers here. We switched to AT&T from Verizon about 6 years ago because Verizon had a big dead zone right in the middle of where DH worked.
 
I may be the only person on earth who is satisfied with AT&T. I have been with them (first Cingular) for over 10 years. In the early years there were problems with losing calls. I haven't had a problem in over 5 years regardless of where I have been in the Continental US (and I still use my 6 or 7 year old Samsung clamshell phone).

George
 
bogey21 said:
I may be the only person on earth who is satisfied with AT&T. I have been with them (first Cingular) for over 10 years. In the early years there were problems with losing calls. I haven't had a problem in over 5 years regardless of where I have been in the Continental US (and I still use my 6 or 7 year old Samsung clamshell phone).

George
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The original AT&T was absolutely miserable. I was on their system and I couldn't drive on I-5 between Seattle and Tacoma without having five drops en route. I knew exactly where the drops would occur. It wasn't a lack of signal strength; it was certain towers that simply didn't hand off the call. Everyone in my office had the identical problem in the identical areas.

As I recall AT&T fought as hard as they could against being able to take your phone number with you if you shifted providers, because they knew that the only reason many subscribers were staying with them was because of the pain of transferring to a new cell phone number. That was particularly an issue for people who used the cell phone for business.

Once the rules were established allowing people to keep their phone number, the massive exodus out of AT&T began, and AT&T began desperately looking for a buyer, which turned out to be Cingular. Cingular then rebranded itself as AT&T, and they moved everyone over to their network. With that change the service offered under the AT&T name became much better, because it was actually a completely different network.

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When I bailed on AT&T I switched to T*Mobile. They were better, but they had some limitations as well, most notably a dead zone right at my house. I put up with it for a few years because there were other aspects of T*Mobile's service that I liked, but a year ago I had enough and switched to Verizon.

So far I like Verizon; the only thing I don't like is that Verizon seems to have poorer coverage outside the US than T*Mobile. International coverage was actually one of the strengths of T*Mobile because outside the US and Canada you were on the Deutsche Telecom networks.
 
We have T-Mobile (for years) (have briefly used Nextel, At& T and Verizon) and are satisfied with them and our family plan. I hope we won't see many changes. The article says no changes until the deal is closed. Let's see what that means for us.
 
timeos2 said:
Combining two poor companies into one seldom improves either one and often the attempts to integrate makes them both even worse. This isn't good news. Being biggest isn't going to help make them best.
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T-Mobile was the second highest rated cell phone company after Verizon.
 
I have been following this very closely since it was first announced. Many market analysts believe that Verizon will be the winner if the acquisition goes through.
 
bogey21 said:
I may be the only person on earth who is satisfied with AT&T. I have been with them (first Cingular) for over 10 years. In the early years there were problems with losing calls. I haven't had a problem in over 5 years regardless of where I have been in the Continental US (and I still use my 6 or 7 year old Samsung clamshell phone).

George
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I also had Cingular and then AT&T. We got tired of not being able to use it in many locations, poor customer service, and poor call quality. We switched to Verizon 30 months ago and boy what a difference. We can now use our phone wherever we are with great call quality and their customer service is excellent.
 
Sprint is the loser

and the loser is ? SPRINT! Sprint can't survive this acquisition. They will raise hell to stop it.
 
My contacts in the industry tell me that in terms of technologies, AT&T is the only logical fit for acquiring T*Mobile. But Sprint has long been the rumored buyer because of the competitive situation.

It's also likely that there have been some preliminary contacts made with the FTC about potential problems with the merger. I expect that there will be some carveouts from the deal to make it more palatable.

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For all of the praise being offered about T*Mobile, in the cell phone industry T*Mobile has been a dead man walking.
 
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This proposed acquistion would elminate a competitor and leave two vertically integrated giants in ATT and VERIZON. Nobody will be able to compete with them and they will stop competing with each other. I hope it does not get approved.
 
sad but true.

and add to the fact t-mobile and verizon are completely different systems there may be more options in the no contract phone, ie virgin mobile, boost mobile etc.. that may be the silver lining to this despicable act.. :eek:
 
Having first been an LA Cellular customer which became AT&T, I really became dissatisfied with AT&T so I then switched to Cingular which you all know became AT&T...it's like I couldn't escape the monster.:eek: :eek:

My only hope is that if this goes through it will improve our AT&T reception here in Los Angeles which is full of dead zones, three which come to mind are downtown LA on the 110 south through "the stack/four level", the 105 just off the 605 and the 605 near Rose Hills. All of which are routes I drive regularly. :(
 
ricoba said:
Having first been an LA Cellular customer which became AT&T, I really became dissatisfied with AT&T so I then switched to Cingular which you all know became AT&T...it's like I couldn't escape the monster.:eek: :eek:

My only hope is that if this goes through it will improve our AT&T reception here in Los Angeles which is full of dead zones, three which come to mind are downtown LA on the 110 south through "the stack/four level", the 105 just off the 605 and the 605 near Rose Hills. All of which are routes I drive regularly. :(
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Why don't you switch to Verizon and you won't have that problem.
 
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