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AT&T CEO: Blocking T-Mobile Deal Will Lead to Higher Prices

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He's right...

TDBearCT

Dec 9, 2011, 11:08 AM
... blocking the merger will cause AT&T to raise their prices, since their network cannot handle the amount of traffic on it (both now and in the future).

If the merger is permitted, the combined company most certainly will raise prices since they will be the only nationwide GSM carrier in the US.

For AT&T customers, it's a lose-lose situation.
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acdc1a

Dec 9, 2011, 11:18 AM
You really buy their lies don't you? AT&T is sitting on more spectrum than any other carrier. They have plenty of spectrum to launch LTE over 90% of their footprint! This is a ploy to remove a competitor and they can't hide it.
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cwc240

Dec 9, 2011, 11:23 AM
Randall and Ralph are trying to find any excuse they can to screw their customers even more. No matter what happens prices will go up. Go corporate greed!!!
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jaydaproblem

Dec 10, 2011, 10:37 PM
well Prices will Continue To Rise Because Americans Dont Step Up Ad Stop it; just look a your goverment Spending Your Tax Money On Crap And What You Doing About it? Nothing the Funny Part America Make fun of China Of this Year Look now 🤣
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TDBearCT

Dec 9, 2011, 1:29 PM
No, actually I don't...

Either way, AT&T will raise their prices. They'll just use the "we don't have enough bandwidth / the FCC worked us over, waah waah waah" argument if they don't get the merger approved.
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mingkee

Dec 10, 2011, 12:50 AM
Don't you remember SpectrumCo?
AT&T can buy AWS spectrum from them.
T-Mobile only has measly 30MHz (and 10MHz in some NE areas) AWS license.
It doesn't help.
Doesn't FCC have its database to look at how much spectrum AT&T has?
Don't be cheated anymore.
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mingkee

Dec 10, 2011, 12:43 AM
WRONG!!!
Please look at what happened in Canada.
No competition = much higher price.
Do you want to pay $1 per byte after the buyout (please don't use merger again, AT&T WANTED TO BUY T-MOBILE!!!!!)?
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dlmjr

Dec 14, 2011, 6:09 PM
mingkee said:
WRONG!!!
Please look at what happened in Canada.
No competition = much higher price.
Do you want to pay $1 per byte after the buyout (please don't use merger again, AT&T WANTED TO BUY T-MOBILE!!!!!)?


So if the transaction happens, all consumers will be ATT customers?

What happened to the other competitors?
Isn't verison a huge competitor?
Will Sprint, all of the local carriers, the 'ghost' carriers disappear?

Strange..... never saw any of that in the offer.. maybe I missed some parts...

Could you point me to the part where all competition will disappear?
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