AT&T Files T-Mobile Acquisition Papers with the FCC

Yes it may be better for consumers as far as productivity and and connection but what about the price of the product what happens if the deal is able to move forweard in the future. What then happens to the price i believe it will sky rocket seeing as how att and verizon will now own the biggest share of the market and are already the highest priced carriers sprint will then be forced to sell out cause lets face it about 17 percent of the market cant compete this should never be allowed to go through. Best intrest of the consumer come on now this is a smoke screen. Lower the price thats in the best intrest and that will never happen

Anti dog-eat-dog legislation should be passed! How dare they merge!!!!

Will this merger create jobs? Every other time we have seen a merger there is always a loss of jobs through the closing of retail stores that overlap in areas and through the shutting down of call centers. This one doesn't seem to add up for me.

In my area for as many years as I can remember ATT's voice & text have been fine. But their data is hit & miss.
On the other hand T-Mobile recently has made leaps & bounds of improvements to their network, as with them I pretty much get full bars all the time and speedy data.
And I'm not even in NY, which I'm sure has something to do with why ATT doesn't improve anything here, not enough complainers.
Now I like TMO, like UMA, like their phone selection, like their prices. But I'm currently with ATT. So, wait it out and hope with the buyout things will improve, switch to TMO for possibly their last few years in bussiness? Then jump ship when ATT messes things up, prices go up, takes em' even longer to roll out LTE? 😕

i read some of the documents and have enjoyed it. hopefully they will release more documents and we will be able to analyze it more. its always fun reading these papers.

I see more people switching to Verizon because of this than staying with TMO and moving to ATT.

Thoughts?

The only valid arguement i see here is that it will not create more jobs. yes it is possible that a lot of people will loose their jobs because of overlaping issues and too many employees.

as far as pricing, why complain. if you already have your plan with tmo then u will be able to keep plan and also still change plan to get addictional minutes or less minutes with the same tmo pricing. i still have my alltel plan and vzw cannot make me change it. i can change my plan at any time to increase and decrease minutes and add a adictional line to my acct. i don't see why complain about pricing because its not like your goign to change carriers every year or so. nroaml people keep their number and carrier unless there is a coverage issue or an...
(continues)

Yeah right AT&T!! You Neo-Cons who feel the government should NEVER DO ANYTHING, need not comment. I KNOW, it is socialist & part of a "progressive plot to destroy America as we know it" to prevent shared monopolies like this, or repair crumbling infrastructure & provide healthcare to the destitute/seniors, regulate or test anything like water supplies, etc. Let's keep the government OUT OF THIS & put our TOTAL focus on the freedom of foreigners who hate us like as is written in our constitution!

Should read: It will create more money for Jobs. Meaning Steve Jobs, as it will bring more customers to AT&T and give them a more chances for iPhones and iPads sales.

AT&T will become Rogers there, and we know Canada had the most expensive data in the world.
Once the merger goes through, USA will have the world's most expensive data!
Imaging that, you have to pay $10 for ONE AND SINGLE BYTE!

At McDonald's.

😁 😁 😎 🤣 😡 😛 👿 😉

It doesn't matter what we say or think. We have no input for any of this. We don't have the money to make our voices heard, we don't have the right name or political power to make a dent into this.

AT&T will get their way. It's easier to buy out someone with towers than to build their own. I've seen it happen in my home town. I loved Edge wireless and at&t bought them out and screwed everyone. People lost jobs, customers were lied to and angry. That was a good time for me to be working with Alltel. Then the same thing happened to me, lost my job and now it's happening again.

Cell phones are not a 'right' mind you. It doesn't matter what we think. Those with money make decisions that effect us.

End world hunger, bring peace to the middle east, bring gas prices back down to $2 a gallon, end the mortgage crisis, end genocide, stop global warming, fix Japan's nuclear plant, increase the value of the dollar, and make Burger King create commercials that are slightly less annoying then they are now.

This is a joke. AT&T knows what it is doing, and so does everyone else in the wireless industry. Let's just hope the FCC sees that too.

Why do you have to cross a horse and donkey to produce a mule?
There is no other way to produce a mule. All mules are sterile, meaning they cannot reproduce.

Hopefully this merger will produce a better mule.

...ATT was telling everyone how great their system is, and now they tell the FCC what a POS it is and that's why they need to buy another carrier.

Notice they don't say anything about how it will help consumers with pricing... only network issues... Looks to me like At&t is almost admitting all of their network issues. But it's just that .... THEIR network issues. They don't have to screw the rest of the US to fix it!!