AT&T Customers Sue to Block T-Mobile Aquisition
This merger CAN NOT be allowed to go through
Bottom line: This merger, if successful, will be VERY bad for the consumers. All the fanboys (on both sides) might try to tell you this will bring about good things, clearly have no idea how the corporate world works.
This will KILL competition in price point, phone selection, and network services / capab...
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It's not doomsday, but less competition is not great for the average consumer either, but yet there still is competition. If Big Red or AT&T merge and this one goes through unchecked then we have a problem. Then at that point the "new age ma bell" would be then broken up.
Time will tell. We saw this in the '90's with several large players and a bunch of small startups.
Then how much are people willing to allow before it gets to that point?
Some are saying It's only one more merge. What harm can it cause?
Well, how many merges does it take before it's too many merges? For these people, it appears to be an industry version of Russian Roulette. ATT is not a small company. Even though Tmobile is a distant fourth, it's still very large enough to make that one more merge with ATT a dangerous inevitable.
John B.
Slammer said:
---" I wouldn't go so far as to assume this assures a new era of the "Ma Bell" years."---
Then how much are people willing to allow before it gets to that point?
Some are saying It's only one more merge. What harm can it cause?
Well, how many merges does it take before it's too many merges? For these people, it appears to be an industry version of Russian Roulette. ATT is not a small company. Even though Tmobile is a distant fourth, it's still very large enough to make that one more merge with ATT a dangerous inevitable.
John B.
I don't think it will get to that point. If it does, I don't believe it would stay there very long. Maybe I am wrong,
I seem to remember a lot of gov...
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