AT&T buy out T-Mobile USA

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I switched from AT&T to T-Mobile and for what, so they can jack me up to what I was already paying.
What sucks Is now I have to pay what I owe to AT&T or they'll just add It to my T-Mobile bill.
And like It was already stated by someone else, now my reception will suck twice as bad.
Hopefully the buyout will fall through and this was just another stunt on wall street to rise the stock up so they can make fast money and continue fu**ing the rest of us like they always do. :eek:
 

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I just came back from Thailand. My friend on Koh Samui pays the equivalent of about $19.00/month for internet, text, and phone for his Iphone and his service is very reliable. He said there are three companies to choose from in Thailand. Can anyone anywhere in America get a deal like this? I don't think so.
 

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From what I've read they'll be placing 88,888,888 new cell towers in the state of Ne-vada (naturally Carson City will be unscathed by the unsightly and ghastly things but will reap all benefits:biggrin1:).

I myself had just a brief difficulty with ATT back in December, they were helpful and gave a bill reduction for the days my servce was spotty. I hate T-Mobile.

There was mention too that any ATT cust. that still has a 3G phone will need a new one to use any media svcs. which means they'll make out like bandits.
you will have to change phones if you want 4G capabilities. You can still use 2G on ATT
 

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if the merger happens, i like the fact that we (tmobile customers) will have more choices of phones, especially blackberries. but at the same time, I used to be with at&t and it sucked. plus there is a good chance that us tmobile customers will lose our unlimited data plan which sucks because i use my blackberry for everything. So, im not sure how I feel. I like the more phone options, but hate the fact that I might lose my data plan and get a rate hike. Plus I work in the country and att gets no service in the town i work in, so I might be switching to verizon if this merger happens. I don't like verizon because they are so expensive, but at least i'll get a signal in the town i work in.
You realy didn't think befor typing this. the whole reason ATT is trying to buy T-Mobile is to get their towers. Your signal will be using the same tower you are now. The owner will be the only thing changing.
 

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A few days ago, I read in a print business publication that AT&T is going to try and ram this thru the FCC/DOJ by claiming that this merger will circumvent a 'bandwidth shortage' down the road. Im trying to find an online link but no luck so far.... however, I did find this ditty that you all may find enlightening as to AT&T's obsession with metering data:

Streaming mad: AT&T sets DSL, U-Verse bandwidth caps - FierceCable
 

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Shirley Bassey said it best: It's just a little bit of history repeating.

Way back in the day, before any of us was born, there were the Oil Barons. They all started out as peons working for small oil or coal companies. Sometimes through luck, and sometimes through cunning, each of them acquired the small company they worked for. Then, they started selling the companies to each other. Small companies were gobbled up by slightly larger companies, which then merged to make even larger companies. Before long, the entire country was at the mercy of Standard Oil, who would swoop into a town, drop its prices, drive out the competition, and then inflate prices as quickly as it had dropped them. Our current anti-trust laws were enacted when in 1890, Congress was finally lobbied by farmers unions hard enough to act to combat the Oil Barons. The result was the Sherman Anti-trust Act.

Fast forward to today, and suddenly we have the Information Barons. They've already gobbled up all of the small and medium sized companies. Now, they're basically working together to increase prices to their heart's content - robbing the market of the competition needed to keep things fair to the consumer.

Gotta love history!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTUIHK7gHRE
 

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Call me old, but with the exception of mobile phone service (let's not talk about the Internet), Ma Bell, as AT&T was known until its break up into baby Bells, was the one thing that still worked without exception in the USA. Sure, it was an old monopoly that had grown up and just got fatter from the days of Edison. But local and in-state calls were kept cheap and if anything went wrong with your phone they came out and fixed it. Imagine that! They came to your home and fixed it! For many years it was cost-free. Then cats (among other pets) learned to enjoy playing with the new-fangled coiled vinyl cords and would chew through them or outright eat them. And then someone decided a black phone wasn't good enough and we needed to lease "Princess" phones for our teen aged girls, and mom needed a yellow wall phone to match her kitchen drapes. That was the beginning of th end. Long distance calls emptied your pockets, but I still rarely make long distance calls. In fact, whenever I need to make a long distance call I go to a locutorio, a little business that provides phone booths (remember those?) where you can sit and talk in some measure of privacy and peace. The last 30-minute call I made from Buenos Aires to Elko, Nevada, cost a whopping 30 Pesos (divide by four for the US$ amount).

But then, unlike the fabulous free-markets at work in the USA, there are different laws governing how much companies can rape and pillage from citizens of Spain and South American Countries. Although Mexico will soon cost an arm and a leg to make a call from it is, after all, a part of North America.

While there is some truth to the fact that communication engineering would not have advanced as fast as it has in the last 40 years, I would happily go back to a time when everyone had a dedicated phone line and no one interrupted my lunch or dinner or conversation because -- for some reason -- the person calling my friends on their cell phones are much more important than I am, who happens to be right in front of them in the middle of a conversation.

Now, get off my fucking lawn before I get started on the deregulation of the airlines when Reagan napped into office.
 
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