So Who Will Cingular Merge With Next?! And Will It Be A Year Or Less From Now?
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No wait. My best bet would be T-mobile, since they rent towers from us already, and probably longer than a year...it'll take long than that to complete everything with the current merger (getting everyone migrated, fixing CS discrepancies)....yeah.
No wait. My best bet would be T-mobile, since they rent towers from us already, and probably longer than a year...it'll take long than that to complete everything with the current merger (getting everyone migrated, fixing CS discrepancies)....yeah.
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Good luck with that comment Jessi....TMobile forum ate me alive after a couple of my responses, to the point that I was jsut antagonizing them to death.
A guess of mine, Doc, is that Cingular wont be allowed for any more acquisitions for the time being. The FCC requirements for the divestures that have just been completed shows that instead of continuing to snatch up regional GSM providers, CIngular had to allow smaller GSM providers to continue operating, so that leaves TMobile. TMobile is already starting their defense of giving the house away (Everything Free!), so profits should start to fall drastically soon...
A guess of mine, Doc, is that Cingular wont be allowed for any more acquisitions for the time being. The FCC requirements for the divestures that have just been completed shows that instead of continuing to snatch up regional GSM providers, CIngular had to allow smaller GSM providers to continue operating, so that leaves TMobile. TMobile is already starting their defense of giving the house away (Everything Free!), so profits should start to fall drastically soon...
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There is no way Voicestream is too big. there is no way they would sell T-mobile. Remember that Cingular just spent 41 BILLION dollars. That is not pocket change for anyone even a huge company like Cingular. Plus right now they are loseing a ton of money migrating customers over to Cingular because they have to spend all this money on phones. People think those are cheap but they are not and right now they are expecting 500,000 people to migrate each month. If they give $100 off each phone thats 50 million dollars they are losing each month. Granted they will make it up over the two year contract but that is still a lot of money to be shelling out right away. I think it will take some time.
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Though I agree with your reasoning... I just had to point one thing out... What the hell does voicestream have to do w/ tmob? I'm thinking you're confusing it for T-mobile Int'l...
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the latest word is that sprint within 6-9 months will be bought by the majority of the ATT Wirekess Stockholders that took the money and run. They were going to relaunch as a resller but apparantly they are going to relaunch within 9 months, pending approval of Name usage from ATT parent company!!!!
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If ATTWS or the ATT name in that matter will ever succeed in anything... the board of directors need to can their CEO... that guy buried ATT broadband... destroys ATTWS... is slowly but surely bringing down ATT parent... and is still running the place w/ the same tactics that have failed miserably in the past... Am I the only one that thinks this guy needs to get canned?
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Well, I can agree with the AT&T broadband! We signed up years ago, then after 9/11, they pulled the plug and suddenly proclaimed it was just a "test"! We had a dish-like device that required NO line-of-sight and all computers and phone worked off that "wireless" dish; it was like having a private network that we didn't have to share with others (no slowing down). I'll never forgive that one! 😈
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AWS hand ATT have two different CEO's. The only connection between ATT and AWS is that ATT owned some stock in AWS.
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That is incorrect. AT&T corp is not purchasing Sprint. AT&T is going to be an MVNO of Sprint service - similar to Virgin Mobile and Qwest. They will re-brand the Sprint service under that AT&T name but they are not purchasing the PCS division of Sprint. Sprint pulled the PCS stock off the market a while back and the PCS division is no longer a stand-alone entity.
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No i'm not getting them confused because they are the same company. T-mob international purchase voicestream and renamed it T-mobile. I thought T-mobile international was voicestream but it was t-mobile internation purchased voicestream to get into the US market.
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well like blue2orange said the fcc wont allow anything else to happen we actually had to give up some markets for the merger to be completed. so i think the new cingular is going to concentrate on keepeing the current customers that they have. 😉
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Cingular and Tmobile are in a mutual relationship right now. Since they are the only 2 nation wide GSM company they have extensive roaming agreements and Cingular gets the better portion of the deal because of the ammount it must get from Tmobile. My friend has Tmobile and has free roaming and his phone's display says Cingular more than it says Tmobile.
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