AT&T Withdraws FCC T-Mobile Application, Will Focus on DOJ
Destroyed.
Deutsche Telekom should have used their brains a little more before deciding to put up a foreign asset for sale on the market.
They decided to buy them, now they think it is just so easy to dump them when the going gets tough.
after they upgrade at@t will force them to change to a new plan not the t mobile plan they are on
They just changed their name it is Cinguar just took the name of the one they bought out.
I can say with certainty that I have hundreds of customers with legacy Dobson plans from 4 years ago, paying $55 for unlimited calling, $50 for 1600 nationwide minutes, etc. I have seen grandfathered Alltel, AT&T Wireless, and Centennial plans as well.
There had been no announcement about the fate of T-Mobile plans, but judging by the fact that the only time I've seen Cingular/AT&T require a plan change from an old one is with iPhones (naturally), I'd say safe bet that there would be no impact on legacy T-Mobile customers.
Cute concept, though. ;)
eskeebel said:
They really are.
No, not really.
Let us make this simple. If AT&T really were "so aggressive when it comes to network buildout," then AT&T would have aggressively overlaid its entire native footprint with 3G W-CDMA by now.
Instead, AT&T has deployed pockets of 3G W-CDMA coverage centered on cities but has left huge swaths of 2G EDGE coverage along highways and in rural areas between cities.
Good grief, after six years of deployment, AT&T still is not even remotely close to finishing a complete 3G W-CDMA overlay. By comparison, VZW and Sprint have overlaid EV-DO across >95% of their entire footprints, respectively, and they accomplished that years ago.
Now, on a personal note, y...
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Verizon and Sprint do not have to spend as much money annually on their networks because they are constantly upgrading. Their expenditures are now done in smaller increments.
AT&T has had to spend far more in the last four years just to play catch up. Perception may become reality, but it is also wise to not let this perception misrepresent the truth.
John B.
No one disputed that this was a good move for AT&T and their shareholders (and possibly their customers).
The issue is that neither of those statements matters, at all!
This merger is a terrible, terrible thing for the United States wireless marketplace in general.
The FCC and the DoJ don't care if this is a good thing for the individual carriers involved, and they're not supposed to care about how this impacts the business model or profitability of the carriers involved.
The FCC and the DoJ have a guiding principle to protect the whole ecosystem, not to protect or destroy individual players in the...
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