RadioShack Spurns T-Mobile, to Sell Verizon Come September

Agreed. The internet is full of nerd rage about the AT&T acquisition. But T-Mobile's coverage just pales in comparison to everyone else's across much of the country (especially outside cities), and they're losing subscribers by the truckload. If AT&T doesn't buy them, they're probably just going to fold anyway.

I'm wondering if this news will help tip the scales in AT&T's favor, since losing some 4,000+ retail locations will be a big blow to T-Mobile's future.

my contract with at&t is up in September and just out of curiosity, I got a pre-paid t-mobile account and bought a used phone off a friend so I could test their network and see if it was worth considering a switch (regardless of the buy out stuff)...while in a lot of places I have tested it, t-mobile works well and is actually a little faster (less traffic on the network maybe?), over all the signal is a mess.
Without touching the phone I can see it go from full strength 3G to edge to nothing to 3.5G (Nokia likes to use 3.5G..) back to edge, etc. It just bounces around all day. It does this at home and at work, which cannot be using the same tower. Both a Nokia N900 and an HTC HD7 did this, so it isn't the phone either. I don't know what th...
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