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Excellent!

Jarahawk

Apr 26, 2012, 3:50 PM
What was good for AT&T is good for Verizon, too. It's not going to pass, Big Red. Take a cue from your twin and quit while you're ahead. Such arrogance!

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Jayshmay

Apr 27, 2012, 1:25 AM
Good point! Their both tooo big!!!
But consumers choose them. 100,000's are leaving Tmo each qtr.
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dlmjr

Apr 27, 2012, 4:17 PM
Jayshmay said:
Good point! Their both tooo big!!!
But consumers choose them. 100,000's are leaving Tmo each qtr.


In whoose estimate?
A lot of customers want national coverage, rather than regional with spotty roaming.

A lot of customers want a company that can actually build and maintain a reliable network and invest in faster networks.

To achieve that, those companies must be large.

If all you want is coverage in your particular area with slower networks, then the smaller companies will fit you desires.

But the 'OMG they are too big' stuff is just so wrong as to be laughable...

Every cellular customer has choices.
The fact that millions choose Red or Blue shouldn't be of any concern t
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Jayshmay

Apr 27, 2012, 4:22 PM
All I haveindustry is thank God there are other websites with less industry employees who are infected with gross bias, and who stopped being consumers the day they became employed in the wireless industry. You can be an actual human being if you wanted to rather than a puppet for a CEO.
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dlmjr

May 1, 2012, 11:11 AM
You have no idea who I am employed by.
There was no gross bias in my post.

I laid out some very pertinent facts and it probably stings you to get a dose of reality.

I've been a cellular customer since the first bag phones came out.

I've lived through the pangs of a fledgling industry, seen the good and the bad.

The patchwork of local networks that would call your phone when you wandered into their terrotory to tell you your roaming charges for them calling you.

Lawsuits with Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems over billing practices.

The fact remains, that your opinion of what constitutes 'too big' is rather immaterial.

The fact remains that millions upon millions do prefer to utilize national networks as laid out by Veris...
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CellStudent

Apr 28, 2012, 12:09 PM
Try reading up on a little anti-trust law, my friend.

When one or two players in any industry become so large that they can dramatically influence the ability of other companies to compete in the marketplace, that's bad for everyone except the stakeholders in the larger companies.

The FCC needs to resurrect the Spectrum Screen:

No single entity shall operate service in more than 30% of the available actively deployed and used spectrum in any given market.
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Jarahawk

Apr 30, 2012, 3:45 PM
Indeed! Still can't believe they let Verizon renege on the ten year pledge NOT to buy Alltel. Unbelievable!
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dlmjr

May 1, 2012, 11:50 AM
Iinnocent monopoly and monopoly achieved by merit is perfectly legal.

There is no monopoly or immenent monopoly in the cellular industry.

There are very few consumers who's carrier choices are limited to less than 3.

The more dense the population of a region, the more carrier choice there will be.

The very fact that Verison and ATT have millions upon millions of customers would indicate some merit in the service they supply to their customers.
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