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My point exactly.

Great Gadsden

Mar 20, 2011, 10:01 PM
The DOJ and the FCC must decide if this transaction is in the best interest of consumers and the US economy overall, and determine if innovation and robust competition would be impacted adversely and by this dramatic change in the structure of the industry.


Ensuring a free, robustly competitive market providing consumers with a healthy selection of choices is paramount, yet allowing a merger of this kind could potentially drown smaller companies (such as Sprint and rural carriers) and create a duopoly. I hope the DOJ sincerely considers the gravity of the effect this merger could have upon the market, else the government may be shooting itself in the foot and screwing us consumers in the process.

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christophergood172

Mar 20, 2011, 10:25 PM
For almost 100 years AT&T was allow to run a monopoly of landline service under the umbrella of Bell Systems. This monoploy was sanctioned by the FCC and the Government. In 1984 that corporation was finally destoryed and broken into seven competing peices.

Now a company broken off of that corrupt monopoly, baby bell Southwestern Bell Company; is trying to do again in the wireless industry. The problem is they are facing... another baby bell in Bell Atlantic (Verizon Communications) who in purchasing Alltel last year took steps towards creating this situation.

So do I think that the FTC will stand against it now? No, because someone somewhere is getting paid and will get paid handsomely to allow this to go through. DT wants its 39 bil...
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thriller1

Mar 20, 2011, 10:40 PM
Sprint had a chance last week to purchase T-Mobile, but did not act now it blames AT&T for making a move. I move from AT&T toT-Mobile because AT&T was too slow to adopting 4G. AT%T starting talking about LTE 4G network three years before Verizon. Verizon was not even on GSM network then. But Verizon beat AT%T to lunch LTE. AT&T is too slow in adopting or updating its network. I will close my acount with T-Mobile and move to Verizon.
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that1guy

Mar 20, 2011, 10:42 PM
This deal was apparently worked since Dec 2010.
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Iknownothing

Mar 20, 2011, 10:55 PM
That was the only news that was leaked. The most likely scenario is that DT went shopping for suitors, and, unsurprisingly, went with the one that had the deepest pockets.
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Versed

Mar 21, 2011, 9:12 AM
thriller1 said:
Sprint had a chance last week to purchase T-Mobile, but did not act now it blames AT&T for making a move. I move from AT&T toT-Mobile because AT&T was too slow to adopting 4G. AT%T starting talking about LTE 4G network three years before Verizon. Verizon was not even on GSM network then. But Verizon beat AT%T to lunch LTE. AT&T is too slow in adopting or updating its network. I will close my acount with T-Mobile and move to Verizon.


Moved to slow to 4g, well yeah they're moving slow, but at least they have some plan to move to 4g. TMO has no 4g, it has hspa+.
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JeffroPuff

Mar 21, 2011, 9:47 AM
Yawwwwn... no one has 4G... blah blah blah... yeah we know.
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ifone4eva

Mar 21, 2011, 11:47 AM
but if you have the iphoen 4, its even better than having 4g, beause the ipholne is rad! its seriously the greatest phone ever! ๐Ÿ˜‰
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Azeron

Mar 20, 2011, 11:35 PM
All governments are corrupt. Money gets stuff done. Glad to hear Sprint would never sell willingly. I thought the same of Alltel...and CenturyTel...and ATTWS...hmmmmm...not good at all. No sir.
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andy2373

Mar 20, 2011, 10:32 PM
Sprint has had their chance to turn things around and they have, just not fast enough.

If ATT has to divest some of there spectrum or towers or TMO for that matter for this buy out to be approved is Sprint ready to buy it? ๐Ÿคจ
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Azeron

Mar 20, 2011, 11:38 PM
Depends... What if it is AWS spectrum? That's what I would divest. Sprint would have no use for that. Maybe MetroPCS...
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Versed

Mar 21, 2011, 9:14 AM
andy2373 said:
Sprint has had their chance to turn things around and they have, just not fast enough.

If ATT has to divest some of there spectrum or towers or TMO for that matter for this buy out to be approved is Sprint ready to buy it? ๐Ÿคจ


I was thinking the same thing, I guess if they wanted to, but I think you might see some divesting of some AWS spectrum to like Metro or some other smaller company who uses it. Well enough to keep Justice happy.
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Versed

Mar 21, 2011, 9:15 AM
Well, they will also be flushed with more 1900, Sprint might buy some of that, if they needed it.
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Iknownothing

Mar 20, 2011, 10:38 PM
The minute a company is large enough, relative to the size if its competition in terms of market share, that company will compete by leveraging market share rather than by improving service. This is doubly true in the case of a vertically integrated company as sprint points out.

I strongly suspect that the doj will allow the deal for several reasons. First, our government has traditionally been slow to act regarding monopolies and never to act with regard to emerging monopolies. Second, and this is the hard part, as I think you aptly pointed out they have little choice. Tmobile has little viable options for growth. It's apparent DT was looking to sell and ATT had the money to buy. I think the most we can hope for is that the DOJ hit...
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Slammer

Mar 21, 2011, 9:42 AM
This is my point exactly! However, I seem to be getting flack for living through the years of the Government acting in favor of the two largest carriers.

The wireless industry would not be in this position of diminishing competition, if the proper scope of the landscape was visioned long term.

This has been my bone of contention from day one. I'm not propping Sprint up on my own emotional feelings. I have supported the smaller carriers for the simple premise of retaining consumer/carrier balance.

John B.
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T Bone

Mar 20, 2011, 10:58 PM
This may just be the result of my libertarian streak leading me to paranoia, but my personal opinion is that consolidation and lack of competition is precisely what the FCC wants...

They want to regulate the wireless industry to the point where all the carriers go bankrupt and then they can step in and nationalize the industry, offering wireless telephone service as a kind of national government run utility company....

This administration has nationalized the banks, and nationalized the auto industry, next up they want to nationalize the telecommunications industry, but first they have to destroy the industry as it currently exists. This is their goal.
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Slammer

Mar 21, 2011, 9:47 AM
Interesting Outlook. With what you placed in your post, there is one problem with this view.

ATT and Verizon will have now eliminated any chance of faltering. Bankruptcy will highly be stamped out. How would they go broke?

I would however, like to hear more of your theory.

John B.
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zataralee

Mar 21, 2011, 1:14 AM
I work for t-mobile... I know thats nothing new... many many people do... But I also have At&t service. This thing had so many people at work today wondering what was going to happen to our jobs... on one hand I like and need the coverage area I have with att... But on the other tmobile is a great co to work for .... most the time.... ๐Ÿ™„ ... But I think Att is going to step on t-mobile customers when and if they own t-mobile. I think this sale represents a HUGE loss in competition between "postpaid" service and thus a sale thats not best for the people or best for the economy of the US. FCC... DOJ.... Please shut this down!!!
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Slammer

Mar 21, 2011, 9:55 AM
I fear the same. I don't work in the industry, but what TMO and Sprint have right now in their current entities, is the ability to apply better price plans to those that don't require huge coverage. It simply gives millions the choice they have had. If subscribers of Sprint or TMO wanted ATT or VZW, they would have gone there. This is the directive of not eliminating the choices. I like VZW, but I don't need the coverage. I can avoid the higher price plan by having a carrier that implements the same end results without the high cost.

I sincerely hope job casualties will be minimal.

John B.
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T Bone

Mar 21, 2011, 1:17 PM
"I think this sale represents a HUGE loss in competition between "postpaid" service"

See now this is where I disagree, 'competition' is about more than the number of choices, it's about VIABLE choices, and, sorry to say, but in most of the country T-Mobile is simply NOT a viable choice.

Look at the Mp3 player market, there are dozens of options, iPod, Zune, Sandisk, Sony, Phillips, Coby as well as a seemingly endless array of smaller companies offering cheapie players for like $20....

Yet with all these options, is there competition in the Mp3 player market?

Not really...the iPod controls roughly 90% of the market....tons of options, zero meaningful competition and a virtual monopoly by Apple.

On the other hand, look at ga...
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