AT&T buying TMobile

[NOTNSS]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20045184-94.html?tag=cnetRiver

[Phillyblunt474]

Hmm hopefully this will speed up the "4G" rollout for ATT

[SFC]

Yuk.

This won't help AT&T speed up their rollout at all. AT&T is going LTE, T-Mobile was continuing down the path of HSPA+.

[Phillyblunt474]

Yuk.

This won't help AT&T speed up their rollout at all. AT&T is going LTE, T-Mobile was continuing down the path of HSPA+.

I believe at&t is going HSPA+ first then LTE?

[SFC]

I believe at&t is going HSPA+ first then LTE?

They've been rolling out HSPA+, but it's not compatible. They're on completely different spectrums. That's why there is no "3g" if you use an iphone on t-mobile's network.

[Phillyblunt474]

They've been rolling out HSPA+, but it's not compatible. They're on completely different spectrums. That's why there is no "3g" if you use an iphone on t-mobile's network.

Ah I see

[Scotty07]

We just dropped these asshats and switched to T-mobile. Fuck.

[RNSF]

lol, this is going to be entertaining.

[Fernanernie]

We just dropped these asshats and switched to T-mobile. Fuck.

12 months before the deal goes down, if the DoJ and the FCC approves

[skiroulertx447]

Verizon FTW

[Scotty07]

12 months before the deal goes down, if the DoJ and the FCC approves

Well, in that case I feel a bit better. AT&T simply sucked.

[CAMSS30]

They just said if this does go through att will have to replace all tmobile customers phones to work on the network, my question is why not keept the tmobile network and dump the att network as it sucks cock. I guess ill be moving to another company when and if this goes down, I swore years ago to never have any dealings with att ever again.

[Paul Revere]

"In other news, service and billing won't be changing, and there's a promise that T-Mobile devices will continue to operate as they do now even after the acquisition is complete. Ominously, however, the company fails to answer its own question about pricing changes, stating only that it'll honor "all contracted plans that are entered into before the change of ownership."

Taken from Engadget. I read that earlier.

[NOTNSS]

They just said if this does go through att will have to replace all tmobile customers phones to work on the network, my question is why not keept the tmobile network and dump the att network as it sucks cock. I guess ill be moving to another company when and if this goes down, I swore years ago to never have any dealings with att ever again.

Because AT&T has ~ 90million users, TMo has 1/3 of that.

Sucks about having to get a new phone, I know that's down the road quite a bit but still

[Paul Revere]

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/28/shocker-sprint-officially-opposes-atandts-proposed-acquisition-o/

Yes, you read that right. Sprint is actually going out on a limb and officially opposing AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA. Apparently, it thinks that the transaction would "reduce competition and harm consumers" if it's allowed to go through, and it's vowing to "fight this attempt by AT&T to undo the progress of the past 25 years and create a new Ma Bell duopoly." It further goes on to note that the combined company would be almost three times the size of Sprint in terms of wireless revenue, and that it and Verizon would "overwhelmingly dominate" the US wireless industry and have "unprecedented control" over the post-paid market. Full press release is after the break.