Cellular South Sues AT&T to Block T-Mobile Acquisition
Fight the Merger now or pay later
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psycros said:
America already has the most expensive and least flexible mobile service on Earth - do you really want to see what happens when there are only two major players? Look at any national election to see how well that works!
Have you ever been to Canada? Because by America, I'm assuming you just meant the United States...and our "high" prices pale in comparison to what they are charged north of the border.
Nobody said a word when Cingular Wireless(run by the same people)as AT&T now gobbled up the former AT&T Wireless back in October 2004. One national carrier taking over another. People were also quiet when Verizon sucked up Alltel. They were a regional carrier. At the time it still left T-Mobile intact hence still a competitive GSM carrier.
Now Kraut Telekom sees no more $$$$$ to be made with T-Mobile USA.
AT&T does not need T-Mobile for anything except for $$$$$$.
AT&T has 99% overlap in data and voice in all of T-Mobiles existing footprint.
The main change from a merger would be SIM card and phone change-outs(obligatory) and as previously stated, much worse priced plan structures.
TMobile needing to sell so bad should sel...
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When Cingular took over AT&T Wireless, they were smaller than AT&T and T-Mobile are.
This take-over is a horrible idea.
AT&T Wireless in 2004 should have been left alone. As well Alltel.
Competition keeps carriers making their plans better and more affordable.
It was either Cingular or Vodafone, and in the end Cingular won, but it over paid by several billion for AT&T Wireless
Mark_S said:
Nobody said a word when Cingular Wireless(run by the same people)as AT&T now gobbled up the former AT&T Wireless back in October 2004.
Not true.
While the public consensus against that merger may not have been as broad and loud as the opposition is today, many concerned parties and individuals, myself included, filed petitions to deny the Cingular-AT&TWS merger.
When BAM-AirTouch-GTE-PrimeCo merged in 1999-2000 to form VZW, the William Kennard led, Clinton era FCC held the line on the Cellular 850 MHz cross interest rule (i.e. no carrier could hold both Cellular A and B side licenses in a given market) and the CMRS spectrum cap (i.e. no carrier could control greater than 45 MHz combined...
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WiWavelength said:
As a result, in several markets, VZW had to divest an overlapping Cellular network (e.g. Phoenix, Cleveland, etc.) or an overlapping PCS network (e.g. Chicago, New Orleans, etc.).
Correction: On the Gulf Coast, PrimeCo in Houston, not New Orleans, was a divested PCS 1900 MHz network.
AJ
The world should wake up and see that Dollars are worth more than Democracy.
And logic as well.
Let's hope this does not follow trend.
I for one, am glad you and others as myself, are fighting this merge. I'm hoping the highly publicized feedback of this merge, will not be ignored.
John B.
Regardless, it is great more parties are speaking up.
Actually, I'm not a rocket scientist. I don't like rockets. I'm physically scared of them. It all stems from my childhood days of playing with bottle rockets on Fourth of July. One postioned itself in an inconvenient part of my body.
But that's besides the point. Fortunately, it does not take a rocket scientist to see that two huge carriers controlling one entity(spectrum), is bad for consumers of this industry. It should be simple math for a second grader.
John B.
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