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tova

Sep 2, 2011, 8:30 AM
AT&T will use any kind of smoke and mirrors to get their way. All of this is just a shell game. The fact is that they will have total control of GSM in the USA...PERIOD.
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mk84boom

Sep 2, 2011, 9:56 AM
Once again, people need to be reminded that the idea of one GSM carrier is stupid. First, lets not forget that Sprint wanted to merge with TMobile. If that actually happened, it would leave AT&T as the only GSM carrier in the US. But my real point is this, GSM as we all know it will be dead in a few years. The reason is LTE. AT&T and Verizon are building and launching LTE networks while people complain and moan about GSM vs CDMA and other stuff hat will no longer matter. Hell, even Sprint announced a few weeks ago that they too are going the way of LTE. So the fears of one carrier being controlling GSM have no merrit. DT wants out of the US market so why shouldn't AT&T be allowed to buy them out? Would u be crying if Sprint or Verizon wher...
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Slammer

Sep 2, 2011, 12:54 PM
---" First, lets not forget that Sprint wanted to merge with TMobile. If that actually happened, it would leave AT&T as the only GSM carrier in the US."---

Incorrect. Sprint would have let GSM run concurrently with CDMA until LTE is fully established. This would have given consumers another choice.

John B.
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Tomdg07

Sep 2, 2011, 4:25 PM
How would this "have given consumers another choice"? So in your mind if sprint bought tmobile (post merger, prior to full lte rollout)you would be able to go into a sprint store and would have the choice between a gsm or cdma phone 🤨 that would be a giant mess!!!

The real concern hear is the fear of power att stands to gain based on spectrum and market share. Not because they will be the sole national gsm network, that would be like to say sprint and verizon currently offer no competition to att or tmobile because they are a different technology.
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djdanska

Sep 2, 2011, 5:20 PM
It wouldn't have been much different that it was with sprint and nextel. They sold both. It was ok. Both sprint and nextel had different advantages. But, in the end, sprint would NOT want to turn off any gsm in this country. Why would they want to lose all potential roaming revenue from overseas visitors? European phones roam on tmobile perfectly fine, at&t most of the time (Not all gsm phones have 850mhz, more common now but not 100%), and extremely rare on sprint.
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ELawson87

Sep 3, 2011, 4:35 PM
Except it would be completely different, because Nextel was tiny and Sprint was small, so the two of them combining didn't create the kind of monopolistic behemoth that would result from AT&T swallowing T-Mobile
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atandtrep

Sep 4, 2011, 7:57 PM
mono=1 duo=2 this merger would not create either of those, stop using those words.
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Slammer

Sep 3, 2011, 8:19 AM
Tom, please do not misinterpret my true stance on this proposed merger. My position is of great concern. I do not support it. I've been against it and I don't see any valid argument from AT&T on this purchase. My main directive has less to do about GSM vs CDMA. It has to do with the purchase as a whole. This industry has no room for AT&T's provisioned stranglehold to control a large percentage of wireless service to consumers.

However, my point on the GSM monopology, is not invalid in context as it was intended. The many concerned for a monopoly on the technology in this country, are not viewing the total scope of the landscape. But, their concerns are not without merit as well. They want choice. Sprint's intents on managing dual technolo...
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ELawson87

Sep 2, 2011, 2:14 PM
No, it's not. Read a history book.
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attrep42

Sep 3, 2011, 8:47 AM
mk84boom said:
Once again, people need to be reminded that the idea of one GSM carrier is stupid. First, lets not forget that Sprint wanted to merge with TMobile. If that actually happened, it would leave AT&T as the only GSM carrier in the US. But my real point is this, GSM as we all know it will be dead in a few years. The reason is LTE. AT&T and Verizon are building and launching LTE networks while people complain and moan about GSM vs CDMA and other stuff hat will no longer matter. Hell, even Sprint announced a few weeks ago that they too are going the way of LTE. So the fears of one carrier being controlling GSM have no merrit. DT wants out of the US market so why shouldn't AT&T be allowed to buy them out? Would u
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iDont Care

Sep 3, 2011, 11:50 AM
attrep42 said:


I agree whole-heartedly. I have been waiting for someone to PROVE to me, how competetion is going to suffer for other carriers! As of yet I have seen no facts to convince me. If this were verizon, or sprint, tmo would have already have been purchased, end of discussion.


Exactly. I'm as liberal as they come but business is business. It's the American way and it's been this way since the beginning. Business are created for one reason is that is to make money not to spare peoples feelings.

Some of these idiots are crying that Sprint should have bought T-Mobile. Are you freaking kidding me??? Like they're better than AT&T?? Maybe in pricing plans, ok but other that they could give a flyi...
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Slammer

Sep 3, 2011, 1:57 PM
---" Now they want to go LTE. Guess what? Bye Bye WiMAX. Another bad decision!!! Who's running that company??? Alfred E. Newman??? Buying garbage 2.5GHz spectrum that doesn't penetrate through toilet paper! That's why their WiMAX sucks. It's not the technology itself the the garbage spectrum they run it off of. That's Sprint's problem. They always seem to have good ideas but poorly execute them.

Bad decision on what? The fact that they utilized their spectrum for WiMAX because it was the only technology ready before the FCC deadline or lose their spectrum holdings? Or the fact that they incorporated LTE hardware into their base stations knowing they may make the switch? It sounds to me that both decisions were made by well thought out pro...
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mycool

Sep 3, 2011, 5:37 PM
attrep42 said:
I agree whole-heartedly. I have been waiting for someone to PROVE to me, how competetion is going to suffer for other carriers! As of yet I have seen no facts to convince me. If this were verizon, or sprint, tmo would have already have been purchased, end of discussion.


Are you serious? Do you realize why we have antitrust laws in place? Because historically when companies were allowed to procede unregulated we ran into issues. It's not that difficult to understand, read up on economics and history. Geez!
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iDont Care

Sep 3, 2011, 6:11 PM
mycool said:


Are you serious? Do you realize why we have antitrust laws in place? Because historically when companies were allowed to procede unregulated we ran into issues. It's not that difficult to understand, read up on economics and history. Geez!


You're living in the past. This is 2011. It's a different America. A different world
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mycool

Sep 3, 2011, 7:49 PM
iDont Care said:
You're living in the past. This is 2011. It's a different America. A different world


The past? Really? Just because the antitrust laws were established in the past doesn't mean they aren't applicable today...

I don't know you personally, but if I had to guess, I'd say you're the type of person that would vote away his rights, then only when it affects you negatively will you pull a 180.

Don't get me wrong. I'm all for businesses looking to be profitable, but I am very much against them doing so unethically. And, if you think that it's in "the past", you're really uneducated. Just a simple example, look into what happened with Jamie Leigh Jones, and see if you still think that compani...
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