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Open your eyes you sheeple

YouAresheeple

Sep 16, 2011, 3:54 PM
I find it interesting that nobody was up in arms when that whore of a company VZ was eating up its competition in rural america when they bought air touch, Alltel and many others just to name a few. The DOJ is owned and controlled by Verizon and Sprint has heavy influencers in that space as well. Were those mergers any different when it comes to a market by market monopoly? If they block this acquisition the FCC and DOJ have major lawsuits coming to them because of the free ride VZW has always had. The truth of it is that Tmobile is losing money and AT&T is one of the few companies that has the money to buy them. Nobody will loan Sprint the money as they lose money on anything they touch. D Telekom has said it needs to get rid of Tmobile and...
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andy2373

Sep 16, 2011, 6:16 PM
I think it might have something to do with the fact and by ATT's own admission they don't need T-Mobile to bring LTE to 97% of Americans. And indeed they can do it allot cheaper than $39 billion.
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gloopey1

Sep 16, 2011, 11:24 PM
In case you've forgotten, at&t did its best to block the Verizon / Alltel merger. Now, they want to buy out, not a regional carrier, but the 4th largest national carrier. The end result being at&t and Verizon controlling over 70% of the wireless market. How is that fair or healthy to the industry? The end result will be thousands of job cuts to redundancies.
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kazahani

Sep 17, 2011, 8:49 AM
+1000
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Versed

Sep 18, 2011, 12:05 PM
They did nothing to block the merger, they said nothing.
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trey1475

Sep 17, 2011, 2:09 AM
YouAresheeple said:
I find it interesting that nobody was up in arms when that whore of a company VZ was eating up its competition in rural america when they bought air touch, Alltel and many others just to name a few. The DOJ is owned and controlled by Verizon and Sprint has heavy influencers in that space as well. Were those mergers any different when it comes to a market by market monopoly? If they block this acquisition the FCC and DOJ have major lawsuits coming to them because of the free ride VZW has always had. The truth of it is that Tmobile is losing money and AT&T is one of the few companies that has the money to buy them. Nobody will loan Sprint the money as they lose money on anything they touch. D Telekom has
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nctruthseeker

Sep 17, 2011, 8:37 AM
You forgot Cingular bought out AT&T not the other way around also sprint has to be up for sale first
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trey1475

Sep 17, 2011, 9:24 PM
Noshit Sherlock.... the point was it was a consilidation of the companies. My point is still valid.
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Versed

Sep 18, 2011, 12:07 PM
nctruthseeker said:
You forgot Cingular bought out AT&T not the other way around also sprint has to be up for sale first


mctruthseeker,
Don't let facts get mixed up in an argument like this, the fanboi will never accept it.
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Woogie

Sep 17, 2011, 5:01 AM
I think it also has something to do with the fact that T-Mobile and AT&T are the only large GSM cellular carriers left. There might be one or two small regional GSM carriers left, but if AT&T gets its mitts on T-Mobile, it will have pretty much a total GSM monopoly in the US. They'll get to determine which GSM handsets come out over here.

This is probably also the reason why Apple now sells factory unlocked GSM iPhones, but not CDMA iPhones. If you buy a GSM iPhone, what choice in carriers are you going to have?
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Versed

Sep 18, 2011, 12:11 PM
Has nothing to do with CDMA and GSM, it has nothing to do that even if Apple sold an open unlocked or whatever CDMA calls it, I doubt if VZW or Sprint would allow it on their system. Nobody carried when Sprint thought about buying TMO, and then, guess what, one gsm carrier.

And please, Sprint has a hard enough time running an Iden and CDMA service, never mind trying to run three technologies.
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tether

Sep 17, 2011, 10:59 AM
What about Comcast? One of the few companies in the U.S. I think America Movil & Telefonica are possibilities outside the U.S.
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Versed

Sep 18, 2011, 12:11 PM
Comcast used to own Cellular One in the Philadelphia area, they sold it to, guess who? Cingular.
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dave73

Sep 19, 2011, 12:03 AM
I wouldn't mind seeing Vodafone buying them, so that they would have to sell their share of Verizon Wireless to acquire T-Mobile USA. Vodafone tried to buyout AT&T Wireless, but was outbidded by Cingular Wireless. Cingular Wireless was owned by SBC (who eventually bought the original AT&T, or ma bell) & Bell South. AT&T had to buy out Bell South in order to rename Cingular AT&T, or they would still be named Cingular today.
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WiWavelength

Sep 19, 2011, 1:28 PM
Comcast Metrophone is/was the Cellular B side licensee in Philadelphia. Comcast sold to SBC, not Cingular, as this occurred a few years before the Cingular partnership (SBC and BellSouth) materialized. SBC operated some of its out of region markets under the Cellular One national brand (as did many other carriers). Then, SBC rebranded all of its markets to Cingular circa 2001.

AJ
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WiWavelength

Sep 19, 2011, 2:25 PM
Correction, I intended Cellular A side but typed B side.

AJ
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Versed

Sep 19, 2011, 3:52 PM
I had Ocean County Cellular, then Comcast took them over an then SBC, crap gets confusing, they were Cellular One at one time or another.

Then went to Bell Atlantic, which became Verizon Wireless. Ahh, I need some Tylenol.
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Versed

Sep 18, 2011, 12:05 PM
Exactly YouAresheeple same with the data issues on the topic above this. AT&T caps and then slows down data on unlimited plans, heck you would think they flew some airliners in the World Trade Center with all the hundreds of complaints over it. Sometime later, VZW does the EXACT sane friggin thing, wow, this is a good idea.
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