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AT&T To Acquire Cellular One, Expanded Rural Service Coming

Now this is perfect!

Now all those little gaps you see in AT&T's coverage area in place like Ohio, Kentucky, etc etc will go away. That'll be so nice - now when I go home I won't have to go stand outside in a vain hope of trying to pick up 1 bar at my house!!
 
MichaelLatta said:
The terms of the contract limit the number of off-network hours per month to 1/3 your minutes or 750 whichever is lower. If you exceed that for 2 months in a row they can terminate your service. They might not if you are spending enough over your used minutes, but they can.
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That sounds about right but I thought it was 1/2 of your "usage" which may mean half of your minutes? I'm going to school in Anchorage, AK and have had cingular/att back at home in CA. I have the 450 plan with 3600 rollover minutes. Thats a 300 minute per month average so I'm using 1/3 of my minutes on off-network towers. I'm sure that my line is not costing them money which would really turn heads. I do have a few friends that have had to go and get new plans in Alaska though and they were able to get away with it for about 6 months, so AT&T WILL exercise that right!
 
Now after this purchase if AT&Twould step up and purchase T-Mobile, Sprint and possibly even Verizon then we would all get a chance to have an iPhone. I could see them going after T-mobile next. Sprint and Verizon are different beasts, however they could still buy them and convert the network.
 
Abercrombieboy said:
Now after this purchase if AT&Twould step up and purchase T-Mobile, Sprint and possibly even Verizon then we would all get a chance to have an iPhone. I could see them going after T-mobile next. Sprint and Verizon are different beasts, however they could still buy them and convert the network.
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Its more likely that Verizon buys out Sprint (same CDMA tech). I don't think AT&T could afford Verizon, nor would anti-trust allow it.
 
nydoofus said:
Its more likely that Verizon buys out Sprint (same CDMA tech). I don't think AT&T could afford Verizon, nor would anti-trust allow it.
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That would be interesting...AT&T buys out T-mobile and Verizon buys Sprint, then AT&T and Verizon battle it out. Considering that everyone wants the iPhone AT&T would slowly dominate and then be able to pick off Verizon. I do smell the days of Ma Bell coming back only in a wireless form this time.😉

I still think this is so funny and so true!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=84Qt1Sz7ITk
 
Why is this good news since AT&T's EDGE network is dog-slow? We should applaud AT&T's efforts to bring their outdated mobile technology to more areas? Doesn't make a whole lotta sense to me.
 
Yeah, they may say Rural Illinois, but that does not include Southern Illinois. The regional carrier that had GSM in our area was First Cellular, which was then bought by Alltel.

Is there any possibility that AT&T would buy the GSM portion of Alltel? At least in Southern Illinois or is Alltel going to hang onto it for dear life?
 
Ma Bell is up to her old tricks again. 😱

SBC, Southwestern Bell, Cingular, now Cellular One...

All these networks are joining the mothership...
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I, for one, do not welcome our new AT&T overlords.
 
Cellular One is the carrier where I have my summer house. They are ATT's partner network up here. The iPhone works great, data too. (it just doesn't appear to be quite as fast as it was in Mpls last nite). Anyway, the acquisition is good news because there are rules on partner networks limiting the amount of annual use. It will also enable people up here to actually buy ATT wireless products. Looking forward to the network upgrade.
 
This is great news. However, the two states I spend all my time in.. Vermont and Montana are both still not included.

DAMN YOU CELL GODS!
 
Mr Fusion said:
I wonder if even half the users on this board know what Ma Bell is, or how things were back in the day.
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Haha, I'm barely old enough to remember, but that hasn't stopped me from going back and learning more about it. 🙂

Oh well, a few more key acquisitions and they won't have to. 😉
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Scary, but true! 😉
 
iPhone GoPhone contractless????

Go Phone mode is essentially contract free?
just activated my phone in the go phone mode as i happen to have fraud alert on my credit reports. which suits me fine as i use less than 200 voice minutes a month. now, even though i agreed for att to debit my credit card automatically for $50 plus taxes each month, am i, or am i not in a 2 year contract?????
 
montanaaaaaaaaaaaa pleeeeeeease
god damn...are we just not part of the country?
im only here for 2 more years, though...
 
Mr Fusion said:
Indeed this is a bit off-base. 🙄

I wonder if even half the users on this board know what Ma Bell is, or how things were back in the day. Oh well, a few more key acquisitions and they won't have to. 😉
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I like how no one at the FTC seems to remember more than 20 years back.
 
For me, this is FANTASTIC news! In Upper Michigan, this will be our first experience with a major wireless carrier. Currently we have two options: Alltel (CDMA) and Cellular One (Dobson, GSM). Now I can get an iPhone in the relatively near future rather than waiting 3 years(?) for the exclusive contract between Apple and AT&T to expire.

HOORAY! 😀
 
pale9 said:
Go Phone mode is essentially contract free?
just activated my phone in the go phone mode as i happen to have fraud alert on my credit reports. which suits me fine as i use less than 200 voice minutes a month. now, even though i agreed for att to debit my credit card automatically for $50 plus taxes each month, am i, or am i not in a 2 year contract?????
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Well, that's the big question. I've looked high and low but can't find anything that says you are. I would think that you can cancel it at any time but I'd wait until the end of next week and then call them to find out.

I can't imagine that they would get away without somewhere listing the terms and conditions. Maybe they'll send you something in the mail?
 
mauiboy10 said:
If only Apple had partnered with VERIZON. Oh well.
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that would have been dumb thing to do. verizon is a cdma-operator. if apple wants iphone to be global product, it needs to be gsm, period. compared to gsm, cdma is miniscule. cdma-iphone would work work in usa and handful other countries. gsm-iphone would work in usa and just about every single other country in the world.
 
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