Hell, I remember when T-Mobile was Omnipoint! They only did pre-paid back then and it was mad expensive. :lol:
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AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, they all suck. I love Sprint! :)
You don't get it. The reason their service is shitty is because their business strategy is to squeeze their technology so tight that the service becomes shitty. That policy is not going to change with the acquisition of t-mobile. In fact it's going to be worse since they have to bankroll $39 billion.
In the end, all of AT&T's customers and all of T-Mobile's customers are going to be left with AT&T's crappy quality of service, except, well, being slightly worse. That's what I'm talking about here.
3G, 4G, LTE, it doesn't matter. The technology isn't the problem. It's the lack of competition and business practices. The business wins and the consumers lose. And, given few options (which is why antitrust laws are supposed to be enforced), innovation is discouraged, and we're stuck with garbage.
Still happy about this?
oh that t mobile girl is so hot:fuckin::fuckin::fuckin:
AT&T would have to pay DT a $3 Billion failure fee if FCC or DOJ kills this deal.
No way they risk that dough if there were any doubts over ultimate approval.
Now watch the politicians in the US and Germany grandstand about possible job losses and monopolistic abuse, but at the end of the day they'll fall in line with the demands of big business.
They always do
Whale Shit!!!:fu::fu:
gotta be a ringer - boom-boom :D
JWBL, the merged company won't have to offer any buyouts to customers. I was in this industry. we're talking customers, not shareholders. Existing T-mobile customers will be lucky to get the current rates 'guaranteed' until expiration of their contracts - there won't be any free phones, etc., unless they (ATT) offers some new phone at a new rate at some discount - all for a nice long 2 yr or more stranglehold. I've had several carriers - none perfect, (t-mobile at present with no commitment). We'll see.
BTW, the current ATT is not the original, SBC bought ATT a few years ago and then renamed itself ATT, to keep the name recognition. Ma Bell actually got eaten by one of its Baby Bells!
Being in the industry right now, I can tell you since last night the word has been the possibility of offering buyouts to customers, especially those on grandfathered plans in fear of a possible major lawsuit. There are ALWAYS free phones, don't be fooled, every day I laugh at a cell phone veteran calling up any of the companies and threatening to go to another carrier and getting a $500 phone without a data plan, say what you want it happens.......
regarding my friend Pomo who says I don't know what I'm talking about (LMAO at that) you stated
Show me where I EVER said T-Mobile wanted to compete in LTE?!?
All I said was if you think the combo of AT&T/T-Mobile with LTE (something AT&T has been desperately trying to work on for months now) will compete with Verizon you're kidding yourself........ This morning AT&T themselves proved me wrong in an earlier post saying they were going to adapt the 1700mHz spectrum and not abandon it in order to get a better network out to 95% of their customers (something they said until this merger was never expected to be possible) so I'll take credit for being mistaken about that, but not once did I ever say T-Mobile themselves was working on some form of LTE, they've been pushing HSPA+ for quite sometime.......
-JWBL