AT&T To Acquire T-Mobile USA

In the new AT&T, I wonder if T-Mobile Customer will be able to keep their grandfathered plans and features. I for example am on the $49.99 1000 minute family plan with preferred (free) myfaves, $10 unlimited messaging for families (every line on the account) and have the preferred unlimited web for phone first devices for $5.00 per line. I also get a AAA discount of 14% off per bill. So I get a lot for just a hair under $70 plus the discount for two lines. Option this out with AT&T, I think I'm at around $210 or so plus tax? If they knock out grandfathered deals like this, Boost Mobile's $35 (eventually) plan per line is just screaming for me!

Now there will be only 3 major carriers and I wouldn't say that a Verizon-Sprint merger is that far-fetched. That would leave 2 if it happens (hope not!). The small regional/city-only carriers like U.S. Cellular, Metro & Cricket will likely be absorbed eventually too. This would leave me wishing that America Movil, the largest carrier in the Americas with 225 million customers would come to the U.S. and build out a network. They have the resources and are massive and would instantly be the largest cell carrier here with nearly 100 million more customers than ATT/TMO combo. Please bring America Movil here Carlos Slim!!

As long as the DOJ attaches stipulations to the purchase/merger to set ourselves up in the future, we're all set.

Primarily, if they attach a regulation that states AT&T must wholesale it's entire network at a regulated price to MVNOs, then we won't have to worry about it becoming too large.

In fact, large carriers should slowly become wholesale networks and let multiple MVNOs compete for our services.

Ok the initial shock is wearing off..

So what if we have one GSM carrier. We'll have all the coverage in the world and spectrum galore!! Not only that but us magenta users wont have to worry about boarding Sprint's sinking ship!

This was the only logical outcome honestly. Sprint and T-Mo would have been impractical and not in the best interest of either party or the consumer. Sprint uses different technologies, has too many financial problems, etc. Let them die on their own. Sprint's the Titanic and AT&T is the Carpathia. The choice was obvious

did something similar when ATTWS was for sale and Vodaphone flirted with purchasing that entity. Cingular's parents jumped in and offered a large sum to close the sale. It made sense for them then and it does now. I hate it though. This can not be good for consumers.

What's that letterhead gonna look like...
😳 😳 😳 😳 😳

If it looks like, smells like, tastes like, sounds like and feels like choice is becoming a relic of the past, it is.
Corporate America shafts it again to the consumer without K-Y Jelly. 😲

1 It's the end of the world!
1.1 Company X should have gone with company Z instead.
1.1.1 They're all going to f$ck us in the a$$!
1.1.1.1 No they're not.
1.1.1.1.1 Yes they are.
1.1.1.1.1.1 No they're not.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Yes they are. You suck.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 No they're not. You suck more...
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1...And it goes on.

My $0.02 if anyone cares. 🙄

The benefit of GSM was the ability to switch carriers with the switch of a SIM. Unless AT&T is forced to make changes, I really don't like this.

Say bye bye to any new phones for a year, what manufacturer would make a new a new phone for a company that's just hanging in limbo till they get merged with someone else? Maybe a couple boring flip phones, but i really don't see any cool smart phones in the future

T-Mobiles 4G Girl just bent over to pick up one of the new 4G phones. The AT&T guys were more than happy to walk right up, pick up her skirt, and give her the good ole corporate "Thrust" 😲
That will teach her to wear such provocative clothing around corporate sex predators.... 😈

I read somewhere in the blogs below "this must be stopped! Justice must prevail!!!"

What justice? Who is losing here? WHO???

"there is very little competition now!!"

BS, there is plenty of competition and it grows every day! Pre-paid companies are getting more aggressive, plus there are hundreds of regional carriers as well as two major carriers to compete with.

On top of that, there is no end to innovation in sight!! There will continuously be better options out there as people and companies come out with the next big thing. The cool thing about innovation is IT REQUIRES PEOPLE BE UNHAPPY WITH CURRENT OFFERINGS!!!

Stop encouraging the government to get involved, those idiots can barely manage thier own lives.

...of an April Fool's article Verizon ran about all the other carriers merging to match them. It is simply unbelievable. Does the FCC dare deny this after letting Verizon absorb Alltel. The Duopoly is almost complete. I suppose it is just a matter of time until Verizon buys Sprint. They HAVE tried in the past, but were curtly rebuffed.

Contemplating whether or not to just pay my termination fee and bounce out of this newly combined abortion of a company. I tether and T-Mobile has always been good about this. Now with AT&T calling the shots seems not only tethering is over but who knows on my grandfathered rate plan, messaging plan and data plan. Who knows about corporate discounts too? AT&T's network gives me a tad more calling range but data coverage outside metro areas is just as weak. Who knows how this will go but I am not positive at all now in the outset. Maybe worth it just to pay that fee and head over to Sprint, the last remaining unlimited (and tether-capable) data company.

Do you think the big blue globe will now be pink?

Is this for real? 😲 😲 😲 😲

Talk about putting your money where their mouth is. This is awesome news. Well, except there is a T-Mobile and att store on ever corner here in DFW. This will make for interesting times for store closings!

Will

This will be the next step to up the ante. Then the duopoly will be complete.

This acquisition of ATT and T-Mobile, should not be allowed or the inevitable will happen.

John B.

--now we know the Sprint rumor was designed to drive up share prices. Or a bargaining tool.

this crap ALWAYS happens on my days off. Not only do I have to deal with angry T-Mobile customers at work, but I myself will be an angry T-Mobile customer. I hope the FCC blocks this ish but something tells me they won't. I guess luckily I don't need to tether, and I don't use a lot of data...but wireless consumers are really getting shafted if this goes through. Seriously, are we really only going to have two choices in the future? Things are really sliding out of control imo.