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So I guess there will be no more of those annoying att bashing tmobile ads from that chick in the pink dress with the shirtless iphone user?!

Those are pretty annoying
You people have no vision. We should now get commercials with her as the shirtless iPhone user.
Hate to break it to you At&t bashers, but At&t does not compete with T-mobile. Att's competitor is Verizon; T-Mo is nothing but a discount alternative and has been for years.
Your assumption is silly.
the shoddy service in the US is not because of the low population density and the large area. Because most people would understand that you get spotty reception in dakota or utah. but the shoddy service is actually in the middle of big cities. Cambridge/Boston comes to mind.

The reason why the service is spotty is because there is no government oversight and no consumer protection in the US. If I had that quality of service in Europe that I have in Boston then I'm sure they would fine the hell out of the carriers and you would be entitled to suspend payments.
Really? See, because of the low density, many towers are erected in rural areas. Those towers could have been in the cities, increasing coverage where you care about it. Does that help you see the relation?
I have yet to find a dictionary which contains the noun 'cite'. :rolleyes:
Already covered, but you could have tried the one in OSX.
I want to know what this will have on the end user? Cheaper voice plans? Cheaper data plans? faster data?
Probably none of those.
T-mobile service sucks dooky... I have the unlimited royalty plan for 49.99 plus 30 dollar unlimited internet service which they don't tell you goes to dial up type speed once you hit 5GB!

This is welcome news!
Actually, they do tell you that. I find their customer service to be excellent. I was calling them just the other day and we got cut off. The CSR called me back seconds later. Never had ANY other company do such a thing. Hell, can't even get family members to do that all the time.
Because those two minor typos entirely completely change the meaning of the article, right?
If you've noticed, arn (or someone) has corrected it. It helps to have someone point it out. As long as you aren't an ass when doing so.
People should stop complaining. This is business. Wake up people we live in a capitalistic society. This is a win win situation for both carriers and the only people it sucks for is Verizon and sprint and T-Mobile customers.
Fixed that for you.
Firstly, you sound. . . bitter. Secondly, raising profits? As far as what goes? For some AT&T isn't THAT expensive AND that's why T-Mobile was in trouble because they forgot this is a BUSINESS.

....

Some of you sound so clueless as to how this is a great move for ALL OF US. T-Mobile especially.
Disagree completely. ATT is the most expensive carrier for most people. Period. It's easy to tell, just look at the prices. This is not a great move if you are currently doing fine at T-Mobile. Switching from T with the most similar plan on A would cost me $20/month right now. Also, I'm likely to add a family text plan this year, that would cost $10 more on A than T. And that's all with T's higher priced plans, I could be paying even less than I am. It's just ridiculous.

I think this just solidifies my plan to switch to V. Need to think about it more, see what happens. My plans got delayed already by idiot family members, or I would have the first week the iPhone hit V.
 
If at&t is buying t-mobile you can bet those unlimited plans are going away. The only way they'd stay is if you already have the plan, then you'd be grandfathered. I highly doubt there will be new unlimited plans offered though.

Idk, something is telling me AT&T will do the right thing and offer them again. Especially knowing people will be livid about the voice plans which I don't expect to change much or if anything.

So does verizon...
Verizon is more expensive than T-mobile as well.

T-mobile was losing customers in every quarter. They were lowering and lowering their prices. What did you expect? The business cannot go on like that...

People were asking faster and faster speeds, but they want to pay less.

That makes no sense. AT&T isn't perfect and they have a lot of work to do. But, this is not whole bad news for the users. As a curren AT&T subscriber, I am happy with this change because now there will be more people I can talk to for free without any additional charges.

You don't know if AT&T will shut down t-mobile's towers, completely...

They might shut it off for a time being to fix the latency or compatibility with AT&T phones, but doubt they will just shut off them.

The bolded is perfection. People always want the latest and greatest but don't want to pay for it. "Yes please give us the nations fastest speeds and let us pay $15 for it." How long did people think that was going to last?

This post was basically my rant so +10! :)
 
You obviously have no idea how businesses work...

This is a horrible deal for consumers, less competition = higher prices. Especially when a large former government monopoly carrier purchases a budget carrier.

For someone who infers he does know how businesses work you fail to take in to account T-Mob has been on the block for a while now as it is unable to make a decent profit in the U.S. being a "budget" carrier and doesn't have the cash to keep up w/ ATT or VZW's expansion.

The reality is this buy out was inevitable. Either ATT buys them whole like they did or T-Mob shutters it's U.S. ops and sells off its infrastructure and customer base to the highest bidder, likely ATT. It's six of one, half dozen of the other
 
WHAT!? More info please.

The one thing I like about Qwest is there customer service is actually pretty good.

[EDIT] Nevermind. Found the merger page. This is news to me obviously. Thanks for the heads up.

No prob. A little more info for you...

Step 1: Look over this article here
Step 2: Compare customer service of Qwest here vs CenturyLink here
Step 3: :eek: :(

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So sad....

I just switched from At&t to T-mobile.

This truly sucks. The reason that I can afford a smart phone plan on t-mobile is because of their even more plus plan. I doubt that At&t will respect that and since the whole point is I'm not on a contract I can't get grandfathered into anything...

I'll either have to give up unlimited web, or give up on a smartphone all together and I really like my mytouch4G (I know probably few sympathizers in this forum)

I hope this at least takes a while to happen. The situation with US carriers is already monopolistic and this just makes it worse. I hate Verizon too (way too expensive and no respect for their customers) so I'm not sure what I'll do...
 
Disagree completely. ATT is the most expensive carrier for most people. Period. It's easy to tell, just look at the prices. This is not a great move if you are currently doing fine at T-Mobile. Switching from T with the most similar plan on A would cost me $20/month right now. Also, I'm likely to add a family text plan this year, that would cost $10 more on A than T. And that's all with T's higher priced plans, I could be paying even less than I am. It's just ridiculous.

I think this just solidifies my plan to switch to V. Need to think about it more, see what happens. My plans got delayed already by idiot family members, or I would have the first week the iPhone hit V.

And after all of that you want to go to Verizon? Lol Okay.

Compare and contrast Verizon plans/cost with AT&T's. Oh and don't forget Verizon is also going to tiered data plans. =)

And. . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFxMux2PyoU
 
Indeed, they ARE worth billions. That doesn't mean they want to make manufacturers re-engineer all of their phones to use those extra bands effectively. It also doesn't mean they won't SELL those bands to another company for billions of dollars in a few years, effectively wiping out their competition while increasing market share at very little net cost to the company. In fact, I'd guess that is their plan.

These things take years to come together and the strategy will evolve with time. However, there is probably no phone in use today that will be relevant by the time this is completed.
 
How does not scream higher prices for all?
Who can think this is possibly good? AT&T will now have the only GSM spectrum (basically) and can raise the prices, lower the caps, and constrict users even more.

True, now AT&T can finally be as arrogant & high priced as Apple, the fanboys will be thrilled.
 
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So I guess there will be no more of those annoying att bashing tmobile ads from that chick in the pink dress with the shirtless iphone user?!

Those are pretty annoying

She's hot.

Giggity giggity goo
 
I'm already on AT&T so I think this will only be good. Getting better coverage and potentially getting 4G sooner are good news for me. Hopefully some good things come out of this. Can't hurt T-Mobile customers either, except maybe raising rates a bit. But honestly at least your service will be way better. The people I know with T-Mobile have miserable service in so many places where I have full bars.
 
And after all of that you want to go to Verizon? Lol Okay.

Compare and contrast Verizon plans/cost with AT&T's. Oh and don't forget Verizon is also going to tiered data plans. =)

And. . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFxMux2PyoU

Don't care about tiered data, not with current tiers. I know some people do.

You're right, that sounded silly as I stated it. But, I can get V discounted a couple different ways, evens it out for me.
 
US Cellular & other smaller carriers

What does this mean for US Cellular, Cricket and others? :huh:
This DOES NOT sound good at all for customers!
How long before there gone?:confused:
 
Now is the time to move to Verizon.

Buh-bye, T
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There's a grammatical error on the front page article. It should read, "...more than 294 million people" instead of "...more then 294 million people."

Apple should have just set up a global cell phone company. That way, they'd be in complete control over their iPhone.
 
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