AT&T to Transition Mid-West Markets Away from Alltel
Just Think.....
remotelylocated said:
How long till VZW gets the markets back when the T-Mobile purchase goes through. How much subscriber money did they spend just to give it back?
1. The AT&T-T-Mobile merger is not likely to garner regulatory approval.
2. If the FCC were to approve the merger and require divestiture, that would affect few or none of these former ALLTEL markets. T-Mobile has very little native presence in the northern Great Plains, so potential consolidation would not reduce competition in these markets.
AJ
Azeron said:
Fingers crossed. It SHOULD NOT. It would be great to see T-Mobile walk away with 3 BILLION and those roaming agreements. THAT would tip the scale a bit, eh?
Take off the rose colored glasses.
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Vmac39 said:
I think the deal will more than likely go through. T-Mobile was looking to sale the company anyway.
Name the number one reason why T-Mobile USA has put itself up for acquisition.
AJ
Jayshmay said:
Umm,...because T-Mo USA isn't making DT any money? . . .am I right?
Good.
Now, answer this follow up question. If T-Mobile USA is struggling financially, why is that? What is the primary cause?
AJ
IMO their doing all the right things. Very, very attractive, appealing rate plans. G2, LG 2x, well specced handsets. So heck if I know what their doing wrong.
Jayshmay said:
Umm,. . .that I don't have a clue to. I'm not a business sort of person, at least not that much.
IMO their doing all the right things. Very, very attractive, appealing rate plans. G2, LG 2x, well specced handsets. So heck if I know what their doing wrong.
If T-Mobile USA is struggling financially, it is largely because VZW & AT&T have consolidated the market so much and have amassed such anti competitive economies of scale that T-Mobile cannot effectively compete on a national scope.
AJ
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Sprint is not selling, but they are not making the huge profits necessay to retain a solid position within the stranglehold of what ATT and VZW have. This subsequently helps US Cellular and MetroPCS to a certain degree. They're much smaller in scale which is attractive in a choice of either large or small.
Everything you mentioned is not taken lightly. There is is a lot of viable info in your post. However, the leverage the two larges...
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Swapping each other's assets like a cartel. Frankly, this has been a game to them. I also blame the FCC and the DOJ for not doing a fair analysis with rules and regiments. They have lined their pockets with currency from the two and put the kobash on upholding these rules.
AJ has pointed out that ATT is claiming hardship, when in fact, they are sitting on untapped wealth. Spectrum. In AJ's words, they need to use what they have first before asking for more.
It really is quite that simple.
John B.
Azeron said:
So AT&T adopting T-Mobile's business model makes about as much sense as a turtle teaching a sparrow to fly?
That is not a bad point, and it might hold true. But it was not what I intended.
While we are speaking in analogies, though, try this one, and see if you catch my drift.
Say that your car's engine were burning oil, would you allow your mechanic to just get rid of your oil pan? After all, that would stop your car from burning oil.
AJ
It has nothing to do with business models nor any other rational interest.
I certainly hope the FCC can see the game being played here.
John B.
There really is no other reason for ATT to come out of nowhere and offer top buck for t-mobile. When a bid is submitted, it is done on a bargaining basis. You initially offer the least reasonable price price possible and work up from there. This is what Sprint did. I have heard Sprint was in a position to offer much more for TMO. However, they started low. ATT just barged into the room and offered more than Sprint could afford to attract TMO from the bargaining table.
T-mobile really doesn't have much to bring to the table that ATT needs. ATT already has plenty of sp...
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Keep in mind, the Verizon divestiture of 105 Alltel was not actually requested, Verizon pre-emptively OFFERED it when to make sure the deal got approved.
You can be damn sure that at the moment that the FCC starts to balk, at&t will suddenly 'offer' something similar to win approval, and you can be sure that they already have the offer in the works waiting for the right moment to spring it.
The deal will be approved.
T Bone said:
Rest assured, the deal WILL be approved, multibillion dollar corporations don't just randomly buy things without having a plan in place to make sure they get approved.....
Before you make such sweeping statements, see the following mergers:
MCI WorldCom-Sprint
Microsoft-Intuit
Lockheed Martin-Northrop Grumman
General Electric-Honeywell
EMI-Warner Music
United Airlines-US Air
All assuredly had "a plan in place to make sure they get approved," yet they did not get regulatory approval.
T Bone said:You can be damn sure that at the moment that the FCC starts to balk, at&t will suddenly 'offer' something similar to win approval, and you can be sure that they already...
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It conveys one of two things.
Either you are very excited about the acquisition or you're just going to simply accept the acquistion without making a stand on it. In either case, I find this disturbing.
This industry needs more competition, and more individuals fighting to preserve this competiton.
John B.
Where I live now has free wifi. And as much as I like being connected on the go, if it comes to it, I still have internet, high speed internet too, just at home.
These wireless companies should realize that people do indeed have other bills, and the way the economy has been the past 3yrs, sometimes people need to prioritize.
I pay a whopping $140/mo. If I had service with MetroPCS, I would be paying less than half that.
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