Lawmakers Express Concerns Over AT&T/T-Mobile Deal
Make the right choice
Hopefully the FCC and department of justice will make the right choice and not allow this to go through. This is the right thing for T-mobile, and this is the right thing for the american consumer.
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While I agree that stopping the buyout is the 'right' thing for the US consumer, since Tmo's parent company, DT, has decided that Tmo should no longer exist, there really isn't any 'right thing' for Tmo. That is, if this buyout doesn't go through, some other buyout or dispersement will happen (e.g. Sprint). Tmo will not exist in the near future, unless some other investor/buyer steps in and wants to run Tmo as an independent carrier... probably not going to happen...
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That is true, however if the reports that this website published were correct, at&t will owe T-mobile USA approx 6 Billion dollars in cash / assets. With that kind of infusion of cash or other assets, I'm sure that T-mobile will have no problem getting along. With T-mobile introducing the throttled data plans, and verizon & at&t not having those (they charge for overage), and the combination of a huge capital influx, T-Mobile would certainly be a competitor, and a strong one at that.
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I don't know much much behind the reason TMO parent company wants to get rid of the carrier. However, six billion isn't a lot of money, when you consider the overall expenses of the parent company. Assuming, money was the issue in the first place. I said this before, they should just auction assets off and what remains, can be bought outright by whatever company has the money to buy it. I think that would be a fair way of doing it, if at all possible. This way, people can stop hounding ATT as the bad guy. They just happen to have the money for it.
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No offense, but "$6 billion in cash/assets" issent a lot in the scheme of things.
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That will last them about a month. Long enough to re-list the company for sale.
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The thing is with the 6 Billion that T-mobile would get if this doesnt go thru...they could stay the budget carrier. Why dont they just forget about LTE? They have a really fast HSPA+ setup that they could maintain and grow out...then just focus on customer care and competing on price.
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Allowing AT&T to buy and control 100% of T-Mobile's assets would give AT&T a near monopoly for global travelers. As one condition for approval Congress should require that AT&T divest themselves of T-Mobile global roaming agreements. Let Sprint, Verizon and other carriers be more competative in the global arena to give global travlers a choice.
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You do realize that no other company will bother with the whole "global traveler" thing since no other company's base network supports them, not because of lack of roaming rights, but because no one else uses CDMA outside the US. (Well there are a few but not enough to count.)
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What you say is true as of now. However when LTE becomes the global standard that will change. My point is that AT&T will have a near monopoly on residents of the USA that travel overseas. That is why AT&T should be required to sell off the T-Mobile roaming agreements as one condition of approval. Sprint and Verizon currently offer CDMA/GSM devices and they can be more competative in the global travler arena. Most foreign travelers coming to the USA will still use the AT&T network.
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The only good thing I can find should this deal go through, is AT&T has some of the best cell site techs in the industry. They also have some of the worst management in the industry. Since most(On the West Coast) of T-mo's network came from AT&T Wireless, the same techs that built that network are with AT&T(Cingular) now. And to have them work on them working on that network now, would not be a bad thing. But that is the only good thing I can think of now.
P.S. I am not saying that T-mo's cell site techs are bad in any way. I am only saying its not a bad thing to have the people that built a network there for support & guidance.
P.S. I am not saying that T-mo's cell site techs are bad in any way. I am only saying its not a bad thing to have the people that built a network there for support & guidance.
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T-Mobile got rid of most of their best techs. They also got rid of their best engineers, sales reps, customer service reps and managers. That is why they are where they are.
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